Aan
loc · Latin script
Meaning: on (positioned at the outer surface of; attached to)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/aːn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aan is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 3.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 58K
- NLNetherlands1 in 135K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈79,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled A'An in ID Indonesia, MY Malaysia.
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)
on (positioned at the outer surface of; attached to)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | listed | A'An | 149 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | A'An | 25 |
| NL Netherlands | 128 | 1 in 135K | 128 | Aan | 9 |
| US United States | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 4.5M | listed | — | 41 |
| BR Brazil | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 18M | 24 | Aan | 13 |
| EE Estonia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 352K | listed | — | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | — |
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 id-github-names register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; the ee-siseministeerium-registry 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Aan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Lao, oB:v cb:v/ 1. adj. — multuous, noisy. limpid, clear. `2:* adj. harmonious, melodious. 3. (Thai) adv... fluently, easily. 4. (Thai) adj. distinct. lao [càeiV/ 1. .v. fry-in oil. 2.«v. - extract lard or grease. o o «4S0 see ALSA
as a wordLao-English Dictionary
In English, A small river in Southland, South Island, New Zealand, flowing into the Foveaux Strait.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sco, Avon (a river in the Highlands of Scotland; a tributary of the River Spey)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cim, on; For stationary objects, e.g. It is on the table.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ff, you (second person singular emphatic pronoun)
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)
- An Jung-geunb. 1879KPnot in their usual nameKorean independence activist (1879–1910)
- Philip Ahnb. 1905USnot in their usual nameKorean-American actor (1905–1978)
- Ahn Cheol-soob. 1962KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean politician, medical doctor, businessperson, software entrepreneur and tenured professor
- Ahn Jung-hwanb. 1976KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player
- An Yong-hakb. 1978KPnot in their usual nameNorth Korean association football player
- Andrew Ahnb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican filmmaker
- Viktor Ahnb. 1985KRnot in their usual nameKorean-Russian short track speed skater
- An Ba-ulb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean judoka
- Ahn Hyo-seopb. 1995CAnot in their usual nameCanadian-Korean actor and singer
- An Se-youngb. 2002KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean badminton player
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 128 | #3,815 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 93 | #8,386 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 24 | #45,802 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 2 | #592 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Aan mean, and where does it come from?
- on (positioned at the outer surface of; attached to) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Aan?
- A machine transcription gives /aːn/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- In which country does Aan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 79 thousand people named Aan in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled a'an.
- How common is the name Aan?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 128 people named Aan, about 1 in 135 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/aanThe 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, “Aan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.