Ganán
surname · Latin script
Ganán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: mettre au monde, enfanter, générer.
- COColombia≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 27K
- ECEcuador≈1 in 36K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ganán itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,800 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Gañan in CO Colombia, ES Spain, VE Venezuela and 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.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)mettre au monde, enfanter, générer
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ganán 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.
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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 Ganán mean, and where does it come from?
- mettre au monde, enfanter, générer Recorded by Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- In which country does Ganán have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Ganán in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gañan.
- How common is the name Ganán?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,843 people named Ganán, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Ganán compared with other names?
- In Réunion, Ganán is the 604th most common surname of 3,012 surnames 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/gan%C3%A1nThe 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, “Ganán” — the 604th most common surname in Réunion. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.