Čakan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A type of axe with elongated haft and engraved head associated with and traditionally worn by the Chod ethnic group
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/ʃakan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Čakan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country.
- RSSerbia≈1 in 130K(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 151K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 227K
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.
- Serbia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 130K (inferred from the name graph)
≈54 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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
(measured from records)A type of axe with elongated haft and engraved head associated with and traditionally worn by the Chod ethnic group.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Čakan 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.
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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Čakan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In zlw-osk, pickaxe, pick
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 28 | #19,275 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 24 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Čakan mean, and where does it come from?
- A type of axe with elongated haft and engraved head associated with and traditionally worn by the Chod ethnic group. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Čakan?
- In the etymology graph, Чекан is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Čakan?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃakan/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- In which country does Čakan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 54 people named Čakan in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled čakan.
- How common is the name Čakan?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 37 people named Čakan in 2024, about 1 in 227 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%8DakanThe 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, “Čakan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.