Gaña

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Gaña is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: inflection of gañir:.

rarermore common
  • 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)

278 people, 2020

Sources
179 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 283K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

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)

inflection of gañir:

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gaña 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 Gaña is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—2781 in 1.2M494Gana179
SE Sweden—361 in 283K36—4
ES Spain—201 in 2.5M199—16
DK Denmark—111 in 534K11——
MD Moldova—81 in 421K8——
LV Latvia—41 in 470K4——
NG Nigeria#867——listedGana54

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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gaña is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Nigeria

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Gana, Ğana, Gäňá

  • Arabic given name180 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, Nigeria, Syria, Saudi Arabia

    Also written Gana, Ğana, Gänä, Gána, Gãñã

  • Spanish given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Chile, Philippines, Argentina, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Gana, Ghana, Ganá, Gană, Ganà

  • French given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Senegal, Cameroon, Nigeria

    Also written Gana, Gãnã, Gâna, Gàna, Gânä

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Nigeria, United States, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Gana, Gaňa

6 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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 Gaña under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Gaña mean, and where does it come from?
inflection of gañir: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Gaña have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 278 people named Gaña, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gana.
Where is Gaña most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gaña 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 Gaña?
In the United States, the national register counted 278 people named Gaña in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
How common is Gaña compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Gaña is the 867th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.

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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, “Gaña” — the 867th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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