Gñan

surname · Latin script

Gñan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 2M
  • USUnited States1 in 2.4M

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.

United States (measured from records)

139 people, 2010

Sources
29 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gnan in BR Brazil, US United States, CO Colombia.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gñan 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.

Where Gñan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1391 in 2.4M139Gnan9
BR Brazil1041 in 2M104Gnan29
ES Spain81 in 6.3M8—2
CH Switzerland71 in 1.2M7——
CO Colombia≈5 est.≈1 in 9.4M—Gnan4
BE Belgium21 in 5.9M2——
CZ Czechia21 in 5.4M2——

139 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gñan is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gnan

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Gñan under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Gñan have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 139 people named Gñan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gnan.
Where is Gñan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gñan is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 1.2 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Gñan?
In the United States, the national register counted 139 people named Gñan in 2010, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.

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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, “Gñan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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