Makan

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Oran; Mekarn, Algeria

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

Makan is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.

rarermore common
  • INIndia
  • PKPakistan

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
139 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Oran; Mekarn, Algeria

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Where in the world(measured from records)

Makan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Makan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—454Makan68
PK Pakistan—listedMakan10
FR France—875—139
ES Spain—496—13
US United States—126—108

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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)

Makan is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Mākān, Mākan, Makān

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Mākān

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Mākān, Makān

  • Slovak surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Makáň, Makán, Makaň

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Макан

42 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)

Makan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Filipino, a type of aromatic rice (Oryza sativa, sometimes subspecies O. s. indica) grown across the Philippines with a variety of white rice and red rice, often considered as a second-class rice

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

  • In nup, Mecca (a large city in Saudi Arabia, the holiest place in Islam)

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

  • In Indonesian, to eat (to consume, ingest)

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

  • In Swedish, definite singular of maka

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

  • In bjn, to eat (consume)

    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)

196019802000Hans-Peter Makan, b. 1960Makan Delrahim, b. 1969Makan Dioumassi, b. 1972Makan Hislop, b. 1985Makan Dembélé, b. 1986Makan Konaté, b. 1991Makan Traoré, b. 1992Makan Traoré, b. 1993Makan Traoré, b. 2000

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 41 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Makan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—454#9,902
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—299#12,241
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020126#137,553
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010107#152,628
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—16#94,489
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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 Makan mean, and where does it come from?
Oran; Mekarn, Algeria Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
In which country does Makan have the most bearers?
Makan is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled makan.

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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, “Makan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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