Żan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Żan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variante di Zanni.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 94Kas Зан(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 46K
- PLPoland1 in 67K
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 Żan 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- 1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
6,086 named Zahn, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Žan in SI Slovenia, Zahn in US United States, Зан in UA Ukraine and Zan in PL Poland.
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)
Variante di Zanni
Sources 3
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Żan 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 | 6,086as Zahn | 1 in 55K | 6.1K | Zahn | 8 |
| BR Brazil | 1,763 | 1 in 120K | 1.8K | — | — |
| PL Poland | 574 | 1 in 67K | 288 | Zan | 41 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Зан | 14 |
| CH Switzerland | 362as Zahn | 1 in 23K | 362 | — | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | 46 | 1 in 46K | 7.6K | Žan | 5 |
6,086 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Attested in 4 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #11,346 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 7 | #14,458 |
Reference works 1
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 Żan mean, and where does it come from?
- Variante di Zanni Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Żan a male or female name?
- Żan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Żan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.1 thousand people named Zahn, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Żan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Żan is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 46 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Żan?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,763 people named Żan, about 1 in 120 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%BCanThe 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, “Żan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.