Ovan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: third-person plural present indicative of ovar
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries
/ovan/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated · uncertain
Ovan is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guyana than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 750K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Guyana (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)
1 people, 2025
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)third-person plural present indicative of ovar
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ovan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Ovan | 38 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Ovan | 10 |
| IN India | — | — | 21 | Ovan | 4 |
| NG Nigeria | — | — | — | Ovan | 9 |
| AU Australia | — | — | — | Ovan | 11 |
1 people counted by Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025, 2025. 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 in-instate-surnames-bystate register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Ovan 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 Russian, "goat."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Swedish, unaccustomed (to); not used to, inexperienced, lacking practice
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, accusative singular of ova
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, from above, downwards
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ivv, white hair, grey hair
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)- Alain Ovanb. 1969FRFrench politician
- Nicolas Ovanb. 1972FRFrench politician
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 21 | #75,797 |
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 Ovan mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person plural present indicative of ovar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ovan?
- It depends on the language: in Indonesian /ovan/; in Spanish /oβan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Ovan a male or female name?
- Ovan 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 Ovan have the most bearers?
- In Guyana, the national register counted about 1 people named Ovan, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ovan most common?
- Ovan is densest in Guyana, where the national register counts about 1 in 750 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ovan?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 1 people named Ovan in 2025, about 1 in 750 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ovan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ovanThe 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, “Ovan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.