Čhan
surname · Latin script
Čhan is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Chan, from Hokkien 曾 (Chan). Doublet of Chang.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
13 other spellings are counted as the same name:
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)
- SpanishChan(measured from records)
- Hokkien曾Chan(measured from records)
From Spanish Chan, from Hokkien 曾 (Chan). Doublet of Chang.
Sources 4
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Čhan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 81K | — |
| MX Mexico | — | 1.8K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1.3K | — |
| MY Malaysia | — | 1.3K | — |
| ES Spain | — | 686 | — |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Čhan mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Chan, from Hokkien 曾 (Chan). Doublet of Chang. Recorded by Wiktionary and Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2) and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Čhan have the most bearers?
- Čhan is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Čhan?
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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%8DhanThe 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, “Čhan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.