Marañan

surname · Latin script

Marañan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From madaanan. Old surname originating in the Batangas principalía.

  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • IDIndonesia≈1 in 52Kfew records
  • SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 190Kfew records

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈23,000 people, est.

Record sources
167 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Maranan in PH Philippines, US United States, ID Indonesia and 5 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)

From madaanan. Old surname originating in the Batangas principalía.

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Marañan is found

(measured from records)

Marañan 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 Marañan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#265≈23,000 est.≈1 in 5K—Maranan91
ID Indonesia—≈5,500 est.≈1 in 52K—Maranan14
US United States—6181 in 538K724Maranan167
SA Saudi Arabia—≈190 est.≈1 in 189K—Maranan13
IT Italy—≈190 est.≈1 in 317K—Maranan11
RE Réunion#201≈120 est.≈1 in 6.3K—Maranan1
QA Qatar—≈98 est.≈1 in 29K—Maranan10
BH Bahrain—≈24 est.≈1 in 65K—Maranan2

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Marañan under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Marañan mean, and where does it come from?
From madaanan. Old surname originating in the Batangas principalía. Recorded by Wiktionary.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Marañan?
Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Marañan in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maranan. After it come Indonesia, United States, Saudi Arabia and Italy; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Marañan?
In the United States, the national register counted 618 people named Marañan in 2010, about 1 in 538 thousand residents.
How common is Marañan compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Marañan is the 265th most common surname of 876,464 surnames 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, “Marañan” — the 265th most common surname in the Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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