Stan

given name · Latin script

Meaning: An extremely obsessive fan of a person, group, character, or creative work, particularly one whose fixation is unhealthy or intrusive

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

/stæn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CACanada≈1 in 4.3K
  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 7.5K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈110,000 people, est.

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
491 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 896 (inferred from the name graph)

Romania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

StanLatin(measured from records)
สแตรนThai(measured from records)
스탠Hangul(measured from records)
СтанCyrillic(measured from records)

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)

An extremely obsessive fan of a person, group, character, or creative work, particularly one whose fixation is unhealthy or intrusive.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Stan 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 Stan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈110,000 est.≈1 in 13K—Stan33
RO Romania—≈24,000 est.≈1 in 896—Stan80
US United States#88915,3861 in 22K15KStan491
CA Canada#513≈8,800 est.≈1 in 4.3K1Stan206
NL Netherlands#310≈7,400 est.≈1 in 2.3K9.3KStan108
BE Belgium—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 9K497Stan74
NZ New Zealand#479≈650 est.≈1 in 7.5K—Stan73

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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names). 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)

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

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Belgium

    Also written Stan', Stàn

  • Spanish given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Stán, Stañ, Stãñ, Stãn, Stän

  • Romanian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, Italy, Spain

    Also written Stăn, Śțän, Ștan

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Stań

  • Polish given name28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Bulgaria

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Bulgarian

    Also written Stań, Sten, Стан, Стен, Stén

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Stañ

  • Ukrainian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, United States, Russia

    Also written Стан, Стань, Štan

71 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)

Stan 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 French, Hypocoristique anglais, souvent pour Stanislas ou Stanley.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In German, from sl. stan 'stand, dwelling'; cf. Stanislav

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In German, Patronymischer Familienname zu slaw. Rufname Stanislaw/Stanislav; Kurzform Stan-.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • In French, Diminutif de Stanley ou Stanislas.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • Short form of pStanley.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

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)

1850190019502000Stan Laurel, b. 1890Stan Musial, b. 1920Stan Getz, b. 1927Stan Dragoti, b. 1932Stan Winston, b. 1946Stan Kroenke, b. 1947Stan Van Gundy, b. 1959Stan Kirsch, b. 1968Stan Collymore, b. 1971Stan Walker, b. 1990

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)

InformalHi Stan,

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)

Attested in 77 sources across 37 countries.

Official registers attesting Stan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202015K#1,868
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—9.3K#427
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202065#1,868
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20257—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)20225—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—5#42,347
CA CanadaAlberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender20241#2,319

Reference works 6

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 Stan mean, and where does it come from?
An extremely obsessive fan of a person, group, character, or creative work, particularly one whose fixation is unhealthy or intrusive. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Stan?
In the etymology graph, Dinu, Kostas and Kosta are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Stanley.
In which country does Stan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 107 thousand people named Stan in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stan.
How do you pronounce Stan?
A machine transcription gives /stæn/ (IPA) for English.
Is Stan a male or female name?
Stan 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.
How common is the name Stan?
In the United States, the national register counted 15,386 people named Stan in 2020, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
How common is Stan compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Stan is the 310th most common given name of 101,916 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, “Stan” — the 310th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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