Gañan

Locally spelled Ganan in EC Ecuador, PH Philippines, RE Réunion.

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.

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Gañan is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name5 spellings in the group

  Also written Ganan, Ǧanan, Ganán, Gañán

• French surname7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States, Ecuador

  Also written Ganan, Gañán, Ganán

• Arabic surname6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Egypt, Syria, United States, Saudi Arabia

  Also written Ganan, Ǧanān, Ganán, Gañán, Ganān

• Italian surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Philippines

  Also written Ganan, Ganán, Gañán

• Turkish name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Ganan, Gañán

• Hindi surname7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Ecuador, Philippines

  Also written Ganan, Ganán, Gañán

14 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.

Gañan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Galician, third-person plural present indicative of gañar

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

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

What does the name Gañan mean, and where does it come from?

inflection of gañir: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

How do you pronounce Gañan?

In Spanish /ɡaɲan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

In which country does Gañan have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Gañan in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gañan.

How common is the name Gañan?

In Spain, the national register counted 1,843 people named Gañan, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.

How common is Gañan compared with other names?

In Réunion, Gañan is the 604th most common surname of 3,012 surnames recorded there.