Čun
given name · Latin script
Čun is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a small shallow boat.
- XKKosovo≈1 in 47K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 40Kas Chun
- USUnited States1 in 49Kas Chun
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Čun itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)
6,820 named Chun, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chun in US United States.
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 small shallow boat
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Čun 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 6,820as Chun | 1 in 49K | 13K | Chun | 13 |
| SE Sweden | 255as Chun | 1 in 40K | 255 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 97as Chun | 1 in 2.2M | 300 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 52as Chun | 1 in 962K | 70 | — | 2 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 47K | 25 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 40as Chun | 1 in 147K | 24 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 28as Chun | 1 in 182K | 28 | — | — |
6,820 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Čun 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 Serbo-Croatian, sinonimi: čamac, barka
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- An Pangjunb. 1573not in their usual nameKorean general (1573-1654)
- Yi Tjouneb. 1859KPnot in their usual nameKorean diplomat (1859–1907)
- Joon Namkungb. 1920KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean biologist/entomologist (1920–2013)
- Jung Junb. 1979KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Kim Joonb. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actor
- Lee Joonb. 1988KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer, dancer, actor and model
- Joon Parkb. 1989USnot in their usual nameartist
- Park Yeon-junb. 1997KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean figure skater
- Choi Junb. 1999KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer
- Kim Junb. 2014KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean child actor born 2014
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
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 Čun mean, and where does it come from?
- a small shallow boat Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Čun a male or female name?
- Čun 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 Čun have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.8 thousand people named Chun, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Čun?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,820 people named Chun in 2020, about 1 in 49 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, “Čun”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.