Seanán
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Seanán is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 480K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.7M
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 3.5M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 480K (inferred from the name graph)
≈50 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Seanan in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 3 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Seanán 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 | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 6.7M | 12 | Seanan | 67 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | 3 | Seanan | 28 |
| AU Australia | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Seanan | 13 |
| IE Ireland | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 480K | — | Seanan | 11 |
| CA Canada | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 4.5M | — | Seanan | 13 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 5.5M | — | Seanan | 4 |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present). 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)- Senan Louis O'Donnellb. 1927IEnot in their usual nameIrish Roman Catholic priest
- Senan Cookeb. 1944IEnot in their usual nameIrish hurler
- Senan Abdelqaderb. 1962ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli architect
- Seanan McGuireb. 1978USAmerican writer
- Senan Karab. 1978TRnot in their usual nameTurkish actor (born 1978)
- Senan van der Merweb. 1986ZAnot in their usual nameSouth African rugby union footballer
- Seanan Clucasb. 1992GBfootballer (born 1992)
- Sanan Salamzadehnot in their usual nameSoviet-Azerbaijani architect
- Senan ConnellIEnot in their usual nameGaelic football player
- Senan Kilbridenot in their usual nameSt.Brigids and Roscommon Gaelic Footballer
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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Seanán?
- In the etymology graph, Senan is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Seanán a male or female name?
- Seanán 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 Seanán have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 50 people named Seanán in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled seanan.
- How common is the name Seanán?
- Mondonomo estimates about 50 people in the United States have Seanán as their first given name, about 1 in 6.7 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Seanán?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sean%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, “Seanán”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.