Chacòn
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Chacòn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country, where it is the 74th most common surname. Recorded meaning: a nickname for a noisy, jolly person, from a word of imi¬ tative origin. The element chac- is used in other Sp.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 119(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 430
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 590few records
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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- #962 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 384 (measured from records)
- 1 in 119 (inferred from the name graph)
≈66,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chacon in VE Venezuela, MX Mexico, PE Peru and 3 more and Chacón in GT Guatemala.
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 nickname for a noisy, jolly person, from a word of imi¬ tative origin. The element chac- is used in other Sp. words descriptive of the noise of musical instruments or of con¬ vulsive laughter, as for example chacota and chacona. Cernohiavek see Chernyakov Chadash see Chodosh
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chacòn 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #74 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 432 | — | Chacon | 92 |
| MX Mexico | #307 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 1K | Chacon | 188 |
| CR Costa Rica | #30 | 43,021 | 1 in 119 | 43K | Chacon | 126 |
| CO Colombia | #231 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 24 | Chacon | 131 |
| GT Guatemala | #725 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 590 | — | Chacón | 66 |
| PE Peru | #203 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Chacon | 88 |
| SV El Salvador | #122 | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 672 | — | Chacon | 46 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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).
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 Chacòn mean, and where does it come from?
- a nickname for a noisy, jolly person, from a word of imi¬ tative origin. The element chac- is used in other Sp. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- In which country does Chacòn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 66 thousand people named Chacòn in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chacon.
- Where is Chacòn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chacòn is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 119 people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Chacòn?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 43,021 people named Chacòn, about 1 in 119 residents.
- How common is Chacòn compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Chacòn is the 74th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chac%C3%B2nThe 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, “Chacòn” — the 74th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.