ין

given name · Hebrew script

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

ין is a given name written in the Hebrew script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. In the United Kingdom it is the 29th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 167as Jan(measured from records)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 315as Ian
  • USUnited States1 in 1.5Kas Ian

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 ין 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 18 (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia, as Jan

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

IanLatin(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)

4 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

ין 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 ין 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#392222,811as Ian1 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).

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

500100015002000Yan Hui, b. 521Yan Yuan, b. 1635Yan Huiqing, b. 1877Yen Shui-long, b. 1903Gan Kim Yong, b. 1952Tae Hitoto, b. 1970Yen Cheng-kuo, b. 1974Yō Hitoto, b. 1976Cherry Ngan, b. 1993Yan Bingtao, b. 2000
  • Yan Huib. 521not in their usual nameChinese philosopher (c. 521–481 BC)
  • Yan Yuanb. 1635not in their usual nameChinese philosopher
  • Yan Huiqingb. 1877CNnot in their usual namePremier of Republic of China (1877-1950)
  • Yen Shui-longb. 1903TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese painter and sculptor (1903-1997)
  • Gan Kim Yongb. 1952SGnot in their usual nameSingaporean politician
  • Tae Hitotob. 1970JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actress
  • Yen Cheng-kuob. 1974TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actor (1974–2025)
  • Yō Hitotob. 1976JPnot in their usual nameJapanese-Taiwanese pop singer (born 1976)
  • Cherry Nganb. 1993CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actress
  • Yan Bingtaob. 2000CNnot in their usual nameChinese snooker 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

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

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is ין a male or female name?
ין 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 ין have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 588 thousand people named Jan, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is ין most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling ין itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Czechia's: the national register counts about 1 in 18 people named Jan.
How common is the name ין?
In Czechia, the national register counted 587,876 people named Jan, about 1 in 18 residents.
How common is ין compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, ין 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, “ין” — the 29th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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