Chūn
surname · Latin script
Chūn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 6,820 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. 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)
- Record sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- 1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
6,820 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
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, 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 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chūn 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 | — | 6,820 | 1 in 49K | 13K | Chun | 136 |
| SE Sweden | — | 255 | 1 in 40K | 255 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 97 | 1 in 2.2M | 300 | Chun | 48 |
| ES Spain | — | 52 | 1 in 962K | 70 | — | 23 |
| DK Denmark | — | 40 | 1 in 147K | 24 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 28 | 1 in 182K | 28 | — | 8 |
| GY Guyana | — | 4 | 1 in 188K | 4 | — | — |
| HK Hong Kong | #381 | — | — | — | Chun | 42 |
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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Chun ShuiQing dynasty person CBDB = 70348
- Chun Qiaoperson, CBDB = 54605
- Chun Taiperson, CBDB ID = 366945
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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chūn 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).
- Which countries have the most people named Chūn?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.8 thousand people named Chūn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chun. After it come Sweden, Brazil, Spain and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Chūn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chūn 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 Chūn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,820 people named Chūn in 2020, about 1 in 49 thousand residents.
- How common is Chūn compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Chūn is the 381st most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
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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%C5%ABnThe 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, “Chūn” — ranked 2727th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.