Phản
surname · Latin script
Meaning: to betray; to be disloyal to
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Phản is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common surname.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 71(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 4.9K
- CACanada≈1 in 7.5K
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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- #767 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 429 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 71 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Phan in VN Vietnam, US United States, AU Australia 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)
to betray; to be disloyal to
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Phản 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #8 | ≈1,400,000 est. | ≈1 in 71 | 101 | Phan | 239 |
| US United States | #912 | 37,836 | 1 in 8.8K | 48K | Phan | 429 |
| AO Angola | #69 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Phan | 3 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | listed | — | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 573 | Phan | 127 |
| AU Australia | #419 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | 3 | Phan | 204 |
| CA Canada | #746 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Phan | 163 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,204 | 1 in 4.5K | 1.2K | Phan | 34 |
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 page provides an analysis of the performance of Vietnamese surname lists in identifying Vietnamese individuals for r; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 Phản mean, and where does it come from?
- to betray; to be disloyal to Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Phản have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 million people named Phản in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled phan.
- How common is the name Phản?
- In the United States, the national register counted 37,836 people named Phản in 2010, about 1 in 8.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Phản compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Phản is the 8th most common surname of 62,915 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Phản?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ph%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, “Phản” — the 8th most common surname in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.