Nakan
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nɑkən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nakan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 7.8M(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.8M (inferred from the name graph)
27 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nakan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 27 | 1 in 7.8M | 27 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Nakan | 10 |
| NG Nigeria | — | — | — | Nakan | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 7 | Nakan | 21 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Nakan | 22 |
| ZA South Africa | — | — | — | Nakan | 4 |
| MY Malaysia | — | — | — | Nakan | 7 |
27 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Nakan 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 bfg, the wild jackfruit
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In btx, cooked rice
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, intent
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nup, body
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, ( Lar , H , A (G) ). Peca. Azkue cita a Añibarro, pero en éste sólo hay nakandun . v. 1 naka.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 27 | #160,000 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 7 | #182,958 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Nakan?
- A machine transcription gives /nɑkən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Nakan have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 27 people named Nakan, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nakan most common?
- Nakan is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.8 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nakan?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 27 people named Nakan, about 1 in 7.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Nakan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nakanThe 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, “Nakan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.