Ân

given name · Latin script

Meaning: favor, grace

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ân is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • VNVietnam≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 41K
  • ISIceland1 in 21K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)

≈42,000 people, est.

Sources
224 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Vietnam, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled An in VN Vietnam, DZ Algeria.

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)

favor, grace

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ân 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 Ân is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VN Vietnam#207≈42,000 est.≈1 in 2.4KlistedAn224
US United States—10,8001 in 31K9.4KÂn153
DZ Algeria#650≈1,000 est.≈1 in 41K—An10
BR Brazil—4941 in 429K632——
SE Sweden—4441 in 23K444—8
FI Finland—2131 in 26K347—3
IS Iceland—171 in 21K17——

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: the vn-kaggle-given register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

Ân is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name59 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Spain, Vietnam, India

    Also written An, Añ, Án, Ån, Ãn

  • Hungarian given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Hungary

    Also written Añ, An, Án, Ãñ, ́an

  • French given name57 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Peru, Algeria, Morocco

    Also written An, Àn, A-N, Añ, Ãn

  • Chinese given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Macao

    Also written An, Ān, Āń, Añ, Án

  • Japanese given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, Peru, Morocco, Tunisia

    Also written Añ, Ẩn, Àn, Án, Âñ

  • a separate name11 spellings in the group

    Also written An, Äñ, Ấn, Ẩn, Àn

  • Malay given name39 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, Peru, Philippines

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written An, An', Añ, 'An, Åň

34 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)

Ân 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 Welsh, third-person plural future colloquial of mynd

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In egl, year

    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)

19201930194019501960Anh Thơ, b. 1921Trương Quang Ân, b. 1932Bảo Ân, b. 1951

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)

Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Ân
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
VN VietnamVietnamese given names (Kaggle)———

Reference works 1

  • 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 Ân mean, and where does it come from?
favor, grace Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Ân a male or female name?
Ân is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Ân have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Ân in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled an.
How common is the name Ân?
In the United States, the national register counted 10,800 people named Ân in 2020, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
How common is Ân compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Ân is the 207th most common given name of 73,918 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, “Ân” — the 207th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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