Îân

given name · Latin script

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

Îân is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. In the United Kingdom it is the 29th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From English Ian, from Scottish Gaelic Eóin.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 315(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.5K
  • DKDenmark1 in 167as Jan

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 Îân 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.

Czechia (measured from records)

587,876 named Jan

#463 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

8 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
609 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 315 (inferred from the name graph)

United Kingdom, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ÎânLatin(measured from records)
ג'ןHebrew(measured from records)
เอียนThai(measured from records)
이안Hangul(measured from records)
ইয়ানBengali(measured from records)
ΙανGreek(measured from records)
იანGeorgian(measured from records)
ИанCyrillic(measured from records)

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ian in US United States, GB United Kingdom, SE Sweden and 2 more and יאן 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)

Derivation of Îân: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Îân
  1. EnglishIan(measured from records)
  2. Scottish GaelicEóin(measured from records)

From English Ian, from Scottish Gaelic Eóin.

Sources 6

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Îân 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 Îân is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia—587,876as Jan1 in 18588K—2
PL Poland—462,503as Jan1 in 83470Kיאן13
US United States#392222,8111 in 1.5K222KIan609
GB United Kingdom#29≈210,000 est.≈1 in 31561Ian417
SE Sweden—123,701as Jan1 in 82124KIan99
NO Norway—43,472as Jan1 in 126103KIan75
DK Denmark#47035,210as Jan1 in 16735KIan105

587,876 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Îân under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Îân mean, and where does it come from?
From English Ian, from Scottish Gaelic Eóin. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
Is Îân a male or female name?
Îân 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 Îân have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 588 thousand people named Jan, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Îân?
In the United States, the national register counted 222,811 people named Îân in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
How common is Îân compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Îân is the 29th most common given name of 404,737 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, “Îân” — the 29th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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