Annan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Annan, Dumfries and Galloway; ‘place by the water’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/anən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Annan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Marshall Islands it is the 6th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 327K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 164K
- DKDenmark1 in 534K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 258 (measured from records)
- 1 in 164K (inferred from the name graph)
1,017 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person from Annan, Dumfries and Galloway; ‘place by the water’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Annan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,017 | 1 in 327K | 1.3K | Annan | 258 |
| ES Spain | — | 54 | 1 in 926K | 54 | — | 15 |
| FI Finland | — | 34 | 1 in 164K | 34 | — | 4 |
| AR Argentina | — | 32 | 1 in 1.4M | 32 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 21 | 1 in 823K | 21 | Annan | 16 |
| SE Sweden | — | 19 | 1 in 537K | 19 | — | 8 |
| DK Denmark | — | 11 | 1 in 534K | 11 | — | — |
| MH Marshall Islands | #6 | — | — | — | Annan | 1 |
1,017 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Annan 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 English, From Annan in Dumfriesshire; found from the 13th century, with William de Anand in 1249.
as a nameScottish Surnames
In English, city, Scotland
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Very fast, a
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
In Icelandic, accusative masculine singular of annar (“other”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, other, (idiomatically, sometimes) else, (when not used as a determiner) (an)other one
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Thomas Annanb. 1829GBScottish photographer (1829-1887))
- James Craig Annanb. 1864GBScottish photographer (1864-1946)
- Beulah Annanb. 1899USAmerican suspected murderer (1899–1928)
- Kofi Annanb. 1938GH7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018)
- Nane Annanb. 1944SESwedish artist
- Richard Annanb. 1968GBEnglish professional footballer (born 1968)
- Kojo Annanb. 1973GHson of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
- Alyson Annanb. 1973AUAustralian field hockey player
- Christian Annanb. 1978GHGhanaian footballer
- Anthony Annanb. 1986GHGhanaian footballer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 132 | #37,938 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 72 | #37,938 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #15,185 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #15,848 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 15 | #14,023 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 7 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 6 | #38,231 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #42,651 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 5 | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Annan mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Annan, Dumfries and Galloway; ‘place by the water’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Annan?
- A machine transcription gives /anən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Annan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Annan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled annan.
- Where is Annan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Annan is densest in Finland — about 1 in 164 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Annan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,017 people named Annan in 2010, about 1 in 327 thousand residents.
- How common is Annan compared with other names?
- In Marshall Islands, Annan is the 6th most common surname of 150 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Annan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/annanThe 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, “Annan” — the 6th most common surname in Marshall Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.