Duán
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Duán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Irish and Scottish Gaelic duan, from Middle Irish dúan, from Proto-Celtic *daunā, from Proto-Indo-European *dh₂p-no- (compare Old Armenian տաւն (tawn, “feast, celebration”), Ancient Greek δαπάνη.
- FIFinland1 in 87K(measured from records)
- GDGrenada1 in 113K
- SESweden1 in 121K
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
- 99 (measured from records)
- 1 in 87K (inferred from the name graph)
1,710 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Duan in US United States.
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)
- Irishand(measured from records)
- Middle Irishdúan(measured from records)
- Proto-Celtic*daunā(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*dh₂p-no-compare Old Armenian տաւն (tawn“feast, celebration”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European root*deh₂p-“to sacrifice”(measured from records)
From Irish and Scottish Gaelic duan, from Middle Irish dúan, from Proto-Celtic *daunā, from Proto-Indo-European *dh₂p-no- (compare Old Armenian տաւն (tawn, “feast, celebration”), Ancient Greek δαπάνη (dapánē, “cost”), Old Norse tafn (“sacrificial animal”) and Latin damnum (“damage”)), from *deh₂p- (“to sacrifice”).
Sources 4
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Duán 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.
1,710 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Duán mean, and where does it come from?
- From Irish and Scottish Gaelic duan, from Middle Irish dúan, from Proto-Celtic *daunā, from Proto-Indo-European *dh₂p-no- (compare Old Armenian տաւն (tawn, “feast, celebration”), Ancient Greek δαπάνη… Recorded by Wiktionary and Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2) and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Duán have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Duán, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled duan.
- Where is Duán most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Duán is densest in Finland — about 1 in 87 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Duán?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,710 people named Duán in 2010, about 1 in 195 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/du%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, “Duán”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.