Flavian
given name · Latin script
Meaning: of or pertaining to the Flavian Dynasty, between the years 69 and 96 AD (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- France (INSEE, 2015): listed as male
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- Brazil (IBGE): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
/flavian/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Flavian is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis≈1 in 43K(inferred from the name graph)
- MDMoldova1 in 49K
- GYGuyana1 in 50K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Flavian
- Swahili:/flavian/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)of or pertaining to the Flavian Dynasty, between the years 69 and 96 AD
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Flavian 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | — | Flavian | 2 |
| FR France | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 101K | 780 | Flavian | 150 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 64K | 3 | — | 3 |
| US United States | 127 | 1 in 2.6M | 108 | Flavian | 10 |
| BR Brazil | 112 | 1 in 1.9M | 112 | — | — |
| MD Moldova | 68 | 1 in 49K | 68 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 15 | 1 in 50K | 15 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 1 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; e-services.md — living population register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)Flavian is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Roman imperial dynasty
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Latin; golden-haired
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In Russian, de flavus, jaune.
as a nameRussian Names
In Russian, "golden."
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)- Flavian I of Antiochb. 320TR4th-century Patriarch of Antioch
- Flavian II of Antiochb. 401TRPatriarch of Antioch
- Flavian Gorodetskyb. 1841RUExarchs of Georgia (1898–1901)
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)36 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Flavian mean, and where does it come from?
- of or pertaining to the Flavian Dynasty, between the years 69 and 96 AD Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Flavian?
- In the etymology graph, Flavien, Flaviano and Flavianus are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Flavian?
- In Swahili /flavian/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Flavian a male or female name?
- Flavian is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: France (INSEE, 2015): listed as male; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; Brazil (IBGE): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- Which countries have the most people named Flavian?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.9 thousand people named Flavian in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled flavian. After it come France, Switzerland, United States and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Flavian?
- In the United States, the national register counted 127 people named Flavian in 2020, about 1 in 2.6 million 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/flavianThe 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, “Flavian”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.