Khăn

surname · Latin script

Meaning: towel, napkin, handkerchief, kerchief, turban

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Khăn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 38th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 893(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 4.4K
  • GYGuyana1 in 104

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (measured from records)

1,485,348 people

#223 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

Sources
53 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 104 (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

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 Khan in IN India, US United States, NO Norway.

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)

towel, napkin, handkerchief, kerchief, turban

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Khăn 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 Khăn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#381,485,3481 in 8931.5MKhan49
US United States—76,1711 in 4.4K102KKhan53
GY Guyana—7,1941 in 1047.2K—1
NO Norway—7,0101 in 7807KKhan14
ES Spain—6,2961 in 7.9K6.3K—8
SE Sweden—4,8091 in 2.1K4.8K—8
DK Denmark—3,0501 in 1.9K3K—1

1,485,348 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Khăn 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 Khăn mean, and where does it come from?
towel, napkin, handkerchief, kerchief, turban Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Khăn have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 1.5 million people named Khăn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled khan.
Where is Khăn most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Khăn is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 104 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Khăn?
In India, the national register counted 1,485,348 people named Khăn, about 1 in 893 residents.
How common is Khăn compared with other names?
In India, Khăn is the 38th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames 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, “Khăn” — the 38th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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