Qián
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Qián is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 47K(measured from records)
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 54K
- NONorway1 in 74K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- 1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)
3,173 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Qian in US United States.
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)
同 铅 , 见 《 汉 语 大 字典 》(86) 。 汉 时 巴 郡 江 州 县 冠 族 有 波 、 锥 、. 母 . 谢 、 然 等 , 见 《 华 阳 国 志 》 (1412), EN As oR Be yanling
Sources 3
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Wiktionary
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Qián 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,173 | 1 in 105K | 5.2K | Qian | 34 |
| ES Spain | 314 | 1 in 159K | 314 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | 118 | 1 in 47K | 118 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 74 | 1 in 74K | 74 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 52 | 1 in 736K | 51 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 1 | 1 in 54K | 1 | — | — |
3,173 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
- Qian Shib. 778wife of Ren Wan
- Qian Libaob. 1732Qing dynasty person CBDB = 61448
- Qian Louperson, CBDB = 135192
- Qian Shiwife of Lanhong
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
- In which country does Qián have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Qián, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled qian.
- Where is Qián most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Qián is densest in Finland — about 1 in 47 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Qián?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,173 people named Qián in 2010, about 1 in 105 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Qián?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/qi%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, “Qián”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.