Sénan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sénan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 204K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 345K
- BJBenin≈1 in 353K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- 1 in 204K (inferred from the name graph)
255 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Senan in US United States, BJ Benin.
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)
Sἑna sἑ /na sἑ n. Dieu le créateur na v. donner « Dieu a donné ». C’est l’équivalent du prénom français : Dieu-Donné. Ce que Dieu a donné à quelqu’un, nul ne peut le lui reprendre.
Sources 1
- Le dictionnaire etymologique des noms propres de personnes au Benin (langues fon et francais)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sénan 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 | — | 255 | 1 in 1.3M | 225 | Senan | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 50 | 1 in 204K | 50 | — | — |
| BJ Benin | #282 | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 353K | — | Senan | 13 |
| DK Denmark | — | 17 | 1 in 345K | 17 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 17 | 1 in 2.3M | 17 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 11 | 1 in 1.6M | 11 | — | — |
255 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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
- Is Sénan a male or female name?
- Sénan is a male 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 Sénan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 255 people named Sénan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled senan.
- Where is Sénan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sénan is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 204 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sénan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 255 people named Sénan in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Sénan compared with other names?
- In Benin, Sénan is the 282nd most common given name of 2,017 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A9nanThe 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, “Sénan” — the 282nd most common given name in Benin. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.