Gàna
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gàna is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 278 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Recorded meaning: fragrance. invoked to protect children. a country which is now Kandahar in.
- SESweden1 in 283K(measured from records)
- MDMoldova1 in 421K
- LVLatvia1 in 470K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 39 (measured from records)
- 1 in 283K (inferred from the name graph)
278 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gana in EG Egypt, US United States, KW Kuwait and 1 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)fragrance. invoked to protect children. a country which is now Kandahar in
Cited for this meaning 4
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- The African book of names
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gàna 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 | — | 278 | 1 in 1.2M | 494 | Gana | 38 |
| EG Egypt | #385 | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Gana | 39 |
| SE Sweden | — | 36 | 1 in 283K | 36 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 20 | 1 in 2.5M | 199 | — | 10 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | listed | Gana | 20 |
| DK Denmark | — | 11 | 1 in 534K | 11 | — | — |
| MD Moldova | — | 8 | 1 in 421K | 8 | — | — |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Gana | 8 |
| LV Latvia | — | 4 | 1 in 470K | 4 | — | — |
278 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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 Gàna mean, and where does it come from?
- fragrance. invoked to protect children. a country which is now Kandahar in Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular… and The African book of names and 2 other sources.
- Is Gàna a male or female name?
- Gàna is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Gàna?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 278 people named Gàna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gana. After it come Egypt, Sweden, Spain and Algeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Gàna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gàna is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 283 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gàna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 278 people named Gàna in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Gàna compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Gàna is the 385th most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%A0naThe 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, “Gàna” — ranked 31031st in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.