Glaván
surname · Latin script
Glaván is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Serbo-Croatian Glavan or Slovene Glavan. Also, an alternative transliteration of Ukrainian Главан (Hlavan).
- HRCroatia1 in 4.1K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 4.4K
- RORomania≈1 in 14K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 88 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Glavan in HR Croatia, US United States, SI Slovenia and 4 more.
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)- Serbo-Croatian Glavanor(measured from records)
- UkrainianГлаванHlavan(measured from records)
From Serbo-Croatian Glavan or Slovene Glavan. Also, an alternative transliteration of Ukrainian Главан (Hlavan).
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Glaván 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Glavan | 27 |
| HR Croatia | #596 | 1,025 | 1 in 4.1K | 1K | Glavan | 43 |
| US United States | — | 593 | 1 in 561K | 593 | Glavan | 88 |
| SI Slovenia | #699 | 476 | 1 in 4.4K | 476 | Glavan | 13 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 338K | — | Glavan | 2 |
| MD Moldova | #302 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Glavan | 7 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Glavan | 10 |
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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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 Glaván mean, and where does it come from?
- From Serbo-Croatian Glavan or Slovene Glavan. Also, an alternative transliteration of Ukrainian Главан (Hlavan). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Glaván have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Glaván in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled glavan.
- Where is Glaván most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Glaván is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 4.1 thousand people — even though Romania holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Glaván?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 1,025 people named Glaván in 2021, about 1 in 4.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Glaván compared with other names?
- In Moldova, Glaván is the 302nd most common surname of 6,301 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/glav%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, “Glaván” — the 302nd most common surname in Moldova. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.