Dayán
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Dayán is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Hebrew דיין.
- ARArgentina1 in 101K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 3.5K
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 4.7K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Dayan in AR Argentina, US United States, PH Philippines and 3 more.
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)From Hebrew דיין.
Cited for this meaning 4
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dayán 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Dayan | 12 |
| IL Israel | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Dayan | 30 |
| PH Philippines | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Dayan | 19 |
| FR France | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 74K | 1.5K | — | 1 |
| US United States | 828 | 1 in 402K | 1.1K | Dayan | 169 |
| AR Argentina | 450 | 1 in 101K | 450 | Dayan | 51 |
| PA Panama | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Dayan | 26 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)Dayán 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 lad, rabbinical judge
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)- Dayán Viciedob. 1989CUCuban baseball player
- Fernando Jorgeb. 1998CUnot in their usual nameCuban sprint canoer
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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Dayán mean, and where does it come from?
- From Hebrew דיין. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 2 other sources.
- Is Dayán a male or female name?
- Dayán is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Dayán have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Dayán in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dayan.
- How common is the name Dayán?
- In the United States, the national register counted 828 people named Dayán in 2010, about 1 in 402 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/day%C3%A1nThe 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, “Dayán”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.