Čančar

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021

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

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

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 7.6K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 12K
  • SESweden1 in 255K

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.

Croatia (measured from records)

559 people, 2021

Record sources
37 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cancar in SI Slovenia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

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)

Čančar 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 Čančar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia5591 in 7.6K559——
SI Slovenia1721 in 12K172Cancar2
SE Sweden401 in 255K40—1
CH Switzerland311 in 271K31—3
NO Norway141 in 391K14—2

559 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Čančar is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cancar

  • Croatian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian

    Also written Cancar

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Venezuela, United States, Bosnia & Herzegovina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Cancar, Çançar

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Cancar

  • Turkish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Bosnia & Herzegovina

    Also written Çançar, Cancar, Čanćar, Cançar

  • Serbian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina

    Also written Чанчар, Cancar

  • Czech surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Cancar

6 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.

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalPoštovani Čančar,Dear Čančar, (English)
InformalPoštovani Čančar,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Čančar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021559#1,231
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021501—
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—172#2,572

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)

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 Čančar?
A machine transcription gives /ʃantʃar/ (IPA) for Croatian.
In which country does Čančar have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 559 people named Čančar, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Čančar most common?
Čančar is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.6 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Čančar?
In Croatia, the national register counted 559 people named Čančar in 2021, about 1 in 7.6 thousand 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, “Čančar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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