Chavan
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tʃavən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chavan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Marathi चव्हाण (cavhāṇ).
- INIndia1 in 759K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 555Kas Chavana
- NONorway1 in 68K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Chavan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 233 (measured from records)
- 1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Marathi चव्हाण (cavhāṇ).
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chavan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 484K | — | Chavan | 4 |
| IN India | #566 | 1,748 | 1 in 759K | 1.7K | Chavan | 233 |
| US United States | — | 599as Chavana | 1 in 555K | 1.2K | Chavan | 200 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Chavan | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 255K | — | Chavan | 55 |
| NO Norway | — | 80 | 1 in 68K | 80 | — | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 61 | 1 in 138K | 61 | Chavan | 10 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Chavan | 16 |
| SE Sweden | — | 50 | 1 in 204K | 50 | — | 7 |
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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Chavan 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 English, A surname from Marathi.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In roa-poi, barn owl
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)
- Aimé Chavanb. 1873CHtheologian and teacher from Vaud, Switzerland
- Vasant Chavanb. 1942INIndian politician
- Prithviraj Chavanb. 1946INpolitician
- Vijay Chavanb. 1955INIndian actor
- Ashok Chavanb. 1958INIndian politician
- Vandana Chavanb. 1961INIndian politician
- Sandip Chavanresearcher
- Hemant V. ChavanINresearcher
- Sachin ChavanNOresearcher
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.7K | #3,487 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 1.3K | #127 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,171 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 547 | #40,082 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 215 | #81,700 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 80 | #18,513 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 61 | #16,013 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 50 | #12,568 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chavan mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Marathi चव्हाण (cavhāṇ). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Chavan?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃavən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Chavan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Chavan in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chavan.
- Where is Chavan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chavan is densest in Norway — about 1 in 68 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Chavan?
- In India, the national register counted 1,748 people named Chavan, about 1 in 759 thousand residents.
- How common is Chavan compared with other names?
- In India, Chavan is the 566th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chavanThe 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, “Chavan” — the 566th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.