Nận

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nận is a female given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Japan. Recorded meaning: From Nan, pet form of the formerly very common female given names Anne and Agnes.

  • TGTogo
  • THThailand
  • JPJapan

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Japan (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Record sources
41 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nan in JP Japan, US United States, TH Thailand and 2 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 Nan, pet form of the formerly very common female given names Anne and Agnes. As a nursemaid and grandmother, a clipping of earlier nana, from nanny under the probable influence of mama, also from Nan. Compare Mary.

Cited for this meaning 7

  • 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • The African book of names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Nận counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Nận is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
JP Japan——Nan1
US United States—8.1KNan41
TH Thailand——Nan1
CN China——Nan18
IN India——Nan8

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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Nận is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name44 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China, United Kingdom, Taiwan

    Languages: English, Chinese, Korean

    Also written Nan, 난주, 난, Nanju, Nanjoo

1 further group 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Nận 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 Nận mean, and where does it come from?
From Nan, pet form of the formerly very common female given names Anne and Agnes. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A concise dictionary of first names and 5 other sources.
Is Nận a male or female name?
Nận is a female 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.
In which country does Nận have the most bearers?
Nận is most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is most often spelled nan.

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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, “Nận”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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