Kuchan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: unexplained. The Slovenian surname originates from the Goricko region
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/kutʃan/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Kuchan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 5.2M
- INIndia1 in 37M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)
293 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)unexplained. The Slovenian surname originates from the Goricko region.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kuchan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 293 | 1 in 1.1M | 293 | Kuchan | 129 |
| CN China | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 14M | — | Kuchan | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 41 | 1 in 5.2M | 41 | Kuchan | 7 |
| IN India | 36 | 1 in 37M | 36 | Kuchan | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Kuchan | 5 |
| CA Canada | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Kuchan | 4 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Kuchan | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Kuchan | 5 |
293 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 293 | #67,318 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 287 | #72,902 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 217 | #81,100 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 41 | #120,411 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 36 | #55,294 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 7 | #117,745 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kuchan mean, and where does it come from?
- unexplained. The Slovenian surname originates from the Goricko region. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kuchan?
- In Spanish /kutʃan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Kuchan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 293 people named Kuchan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kuchan.
- Where is Kuchan most common?
- Kuchan is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kuchan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 293 people named Kuchan in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kuchanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kuchan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.