Raván
surname · Latin script
Raván is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks. see Raven . Further information: this name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA.
- GYGuyana1 in 188K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 435K
- LVLatvia1 in 627K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 188K (inferred from the name graph)
291 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ravan in US United States, BR Brazil.
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)Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks. see Raven . Further information: this name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA.
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Raván 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 | 291 | 1 in 1.1M | 404 | Ravan | 21 |
| PL Poland | 88 | 1 in 435K | 88 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 78 | 1 in 2.7M | 78 | Ravan | 25 |
| GY Guyana | 4 | 1 in 188K | 4 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | 3 | 1 in 627K | 3 | — | — |
291 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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 Raván mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks. see Raven . Further information: this name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- In which country does Raván have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 291 people named Raván, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ravan.
- Where is Raván most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Raván is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 188 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Raván?
- In the United States, the national register counted 291 people named Raván in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rav%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, “Raván”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.