Kukan

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kukən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kukan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 201K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 535K
  • INIndia≈1 in 765K

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.

India (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,700 people, est.

Sources
10 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 201K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kukan 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.

Where Kukan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India≈1,700 est.≈1 in 765K1Kukan10
US United States1101 in 3M118Kukan10
HR Croatia211 in 201K21——
CZ Czechia201 in 535K20——
CH Switzerland61 in 1.4M6——

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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kukan is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Slovak surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Kukáň, Kukán, Kukaň

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Kūkan, Kukán, Kukaň

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Panama

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kukán

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Qatar, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia

    Also written Kūkan

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kukan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Russian, Nevik Kukan, peasant. 1495.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In Finnish, genitive singular of kukka

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Eduard Kukan, b. 1939Dean Kukan, b. 1993Zabihollah Kohkan, b. 2000
  • Eduard Kukanb. 1939SKCzechoslovak diplomat, Minister of Defence of Slovakia, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia, member of Slovak National Council, ambassador and Slovak politician (1939–2022)
  • Dean Kukanb. 1993CHSwiss ice hockey defenceman
  • Zabihollah Kohkanb. 2000IRnot in their usual nameIranian footballer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Mr Kukan,
InformalHi Kukan,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Kukan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000118#132,259
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020110#149,446
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010110#149,395
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202121#22,427
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202121—
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—20#53,781
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—20#15,432
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20246#89,778
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—3#18,849
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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

How do you pronounce Kukan?
A machine transcription gives /kukən/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Kukan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Kukan in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kukan.
Where is Kukan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kukan is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 201 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kukan?
In the United States, the national register counted 110 people named Kukan in 2010, about 1 in 3.0 million residents.

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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, “Kukan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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