Chân
given name · Latin script
Meaning: foot
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Chân is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Vietnam it is the 88th most common surname.
- GYGuyana1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 3.8K
- USUnited States1 in 4.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
76,664 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Chan in US United States, VN Vietnam.
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)foot
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Chân is found
(measured from records)Chân 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 | — | 76,664 | 1 in 4.3K | 81K | Chan | 87 |
| VN Vietnam | #88 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 42K | listed | Chan | 110 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1,348 | 1 in 3.8K | 1.3K | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 686 | 1 in 73K | 686 | — | 5 |
| GY Guyana | — | 541 | 1 in 1.4K | 541 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 530 | 1 in 10K | 530 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 429 | 1 in 13K | 429 | — | 1 |
76,664 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)Chân is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, Honest
as a nameVietnamese Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 37)
In Welsh, aspirate mutation of cân
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Trần Khát Chânb. 1370politician
- Nguyễn Chânb. 1929VNVietnamese politician
- Đặng Văn ChânVietnamese admiral of the Tây Sơn dynasty
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chân mean, and where does it come from?
- foot Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Chân?
- In the etymology graph, ជើង is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Chân a male or female name?
- Chân 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Chân?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 77 thousand people named Chân, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chan. After it come Vietnam, Costa Rica, Spain and Guyana; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Chân most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chân is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Chân?
- In the United States, the national register counted 76,664 people named Chân in 2010, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Chân compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Chân is the 88th most common surname of 62,915 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chân?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ch%C3%A2nThe 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, “Chân” — the 88th most common surname in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.