Giản
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Tên chính suy từ tên tự Đạm Như; nghĩa 'bình dị, giản đơn', gợi câu 'giản nhi văn' trong Trung Dung
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Giản is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 24K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 25K
- ISIceland1 in 58K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- 1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
8,962 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gian in US United States, ES Spain.
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)
Tên chính suy từ tên tự Đạm Như; nghĩa 'bình dị, giản đơn', gợi câu 'giản nhi văn' trong Trung Dung.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Giản 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 8,962 | 1 in 24K | 9K | — | 1 |
| US United States | 4,626 | 1 in 72K | 4.2K | Gian | 36 |
| CR Costa Rica | 200 | 1 in 25K | 200 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 118 | 1 in 424K | 118 | Gian | 12 |
| SE Sweden | 100 | 1 in 102K | 100 | — | 2 |
| IS Iceland | 6 | 1 in 58K | 6 | — | — |
8,962 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Yao Silianb. 557not in their usual nameChinese politician and historian (564–637)
- Lang Jianb. 975not in their usual nameSong dynasty person CBDB = 964
- Yang Jianb. 1141not in their usual nameSong dynasty philosopher (1141-1226)
- Wang Jiannot in their usual nameSong dynasty person CBDB = 45818
- Han Jiannot in their usual namethird head of the House of Han
- Zhang Jiannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 269398
- Gongsun Jiannot in their usual nameSong dynasty person (CBDB = 13537)
- Nan Jiannot in their usual nameSong dynasty person CBDB = 43407
- Zhang Jiannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 288202
- Sima Jiannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 245912
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Giản a male or female name?
- Giản is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Giản mean?
- Recorded meaning: Tên chính suy từ tên tự Đạm Như; nghĩa 'bình dị, giản đơn', gợi câu 'giản nhi văn' trong Trung Dung.
- In which country does Giản have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 9.0 thousand people named Giản, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Giản most common?
- Giản is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 24 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Giản?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 8,962 people named Giản in 2022, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Giản?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gi%E1%BA%A3nThe 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, “Giản”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.