Crisan
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Crisan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- RORomania≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 697K
- ESSpain1 in 57K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Crisan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #111 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Crisan | 89 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 67K | listed | Crisan | 28 |
| ES Spain | — | 885 | 1 in 57K | 885 | Crisan | 45 |
| US United States | — | 477 | 1 in 697K | 579 | Crisan | 143 |
| FR France | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 193K | 11 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 52 | 1 in 113K | 52 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 52 | 1 in 105K | 52 | — | 8 |
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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Crisan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, var of Krizhan.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Sorin Crișanb. 1966RORomanian university teacher
- Cristina Crisanb. 1967chess player
- Rareș Crisanb. 1987CACanadian rower
- John Kelleynot in their usual nameson of David E. Kelley and Michelle Pfeiffer
- Daniel N CrisanROresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0001-6938-3765
- Manuela E CrisanROresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-7067-5818
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)
Attested in 25 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- In which country does Crisan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Crisan in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled crisan.
- How common is the name Crisan?
- In Spain, the national register counted 885 people named Crisan, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.
- How common is Crisan compared with other names?
- In Romania, Crisan is the 111th most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Crisan?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/crisanThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Crisan” — the 111th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.