Čap
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Čap is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: »1° Zapfen, 2° čvoru drveća«.
- CZCzechia1 in 5.9K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 28K
- PLPoland1 in 47K
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)
1,799 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Čáp in CZ Czechia, SK Slovakia.
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)»1° Zapfen, 2° čvoru drveća«
Cited for this meaning 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Čap 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | 1,799 | 1 in 5.9K | 1.8K | Čáp | 45 |
| US United States | 865 | 1 in 385K | 935 | — | 32 |
| PL Poland | 814 | 1 in 47K | 415 | — | 36 |
| BE Belgium | 420 | 1 in 28K | 420 | — | 1 |
| SK Slovakia | 93 | 1 in 59K | 93 | Čáp | 24 |
| CH Switzerland | 45 | 1 in 187K | 45 | — | 3 |
1,799 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)Čap 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 phl, Co-lexicalized intensifier
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, plug, cork, stopper
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dlm, flock
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, »1° Zapfen, 2° čvoru drveća«
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
In Latvian, lieto, lai atdarinātu paklusu, neskaidru soļu troksni
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
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
- What does the name Čap mean, and where does it come from?
- »1° Zapfen, 2° čvoru drveća« Recorded by Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- Is Čap a male or female name?
- Čap is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Čap have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Čap, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled čáp.
- Where is Čap most common?
- Čap is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Čap?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 1,799 people named Čap, about 1 in 5.9 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%8DapThe 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, “Čap”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.