Chún

surname · Latin script

Chún is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Wilts. unexplained.

  • SESweden1 in 40K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 49K
  • DKDenmark1 in 147K

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)

6,820 people, 2020

Record sources
136 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Chun in US United States, BR Brazil, HK Hong Kong.

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)

Main GB Location (1881): Wilts. unexplained.

Cited for this meaning 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Chún 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.

Where Chún is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—6,8201 in 49K13KChun136
SE Sweden—2551 in 40K255—1
BR Brazil—971 in 2.2M300Chun48
ES Spain—521 in 962K70—23
DK Denmark—401 in 147K24——
CR Costa Rica—281 in 182K28—8
GY Guyana—41 in 188K4——
HK Hong Kong#381———Chun42

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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Chún is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Australia, Hong Kong

    Languages: English, Chinese, German

    Also written Chun, Chuen, Chu-En, Chu'En, Chuñ

  • a separate given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, China, United Kingdom

    Also written Chun, Chuñ, Chủn, Çhun, Chưn

  • Thai given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, United States

    Also written Chun, Chuñ, ชณห์, Chư̄n, ชณิห์

  • Russian given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Hong Kong, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Чун, Чон, Chun, Чунь, Chuñ

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Chún 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 Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 脣 /唇

    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)

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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Chún under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Chún mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Wilts. unexplained. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007).
In which country does Chún have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 6.8 thousand people named Chún, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chun.
Where is Chún most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chún is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 40 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Chún?
In the United States, the national register counted 6,820 people named Chún in 2020, about 1 in 49 thousand residents.
How common is Chún compared with other names?
In Hong Kong, Chún is the 381st most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.

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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, “Chún” — the 381st most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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