Gangan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A talking drum of West Africa
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡənɡən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gangan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 10M(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 736K
- ESSpain1 in 1.3M
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- 1 in 736K (inferred from the name graph)
52 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A talking drum of West Africa.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gangan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 52 | 1 in 736K | 39 | — | — |
| IN India | 38 | 1 in 35M | 38 | Gangan | 41 |
| ES Spain | 38 | 1 in 1.3M | 38 | — | 3 |
| PH Philippines | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 10M | — | Gangan | 25 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Gangan | 46 |
| MD Moldova | — | — | — | Gangan | 8 |
52 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Gangan 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 Yoruba, A common type of talking drum and a subfamily of drums in the dùndún family of drums
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, definite nominative singular of ganga
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In srn, elderly person, old man, old woman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, wild hops (Flemingia strobilifera)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, mangrove cuckoo (Coccyzus minor)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gangan mean, and where does it come from?
- A talking drum of West Africa. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gangan?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡənɡən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Gangan have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 52 people named Gangan, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gangan most common?
- Gangan is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 736 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gangan?
- In Poland, the national register counted 52 people named Gangan in 2026, about 1 in 736 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gangan?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ganganThe 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, “Gangan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.