Gåna
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gåna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: fragrance. invoked to protect children. a country which is now Kandahar in.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 283K
- MDMoldova1 in 421K
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
- 179 (measured from records)
- 1 in 283K (inferred from the name graph)
278 people, 2020
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 NG Nigeria, 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)
fragrance. invoked to protect children. a country which is now Kandahar in
Sources 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)
Gåna 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.
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 Gåna 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 Gåna a male or female name?
- Gåna 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 Gåna have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 278 people named Gåna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gana.
- Where is Gåna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gåna 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 Gåna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 278 people named Gåna in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Gåna compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Gåna is the 867th most common given name of 138,191 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%A5naThe 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, “Gåna” — the 867th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.