Xān

given name · Latin script

Xān is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France. Recorded meaning: From Old Galician-Portuguese Joan, from Latin Iohannes, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוחנן (Yôḥānān, “Yahweh is gracious”).

France (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
4 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

Derivation of Xān: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Xān
  1. Old Galician-PortugueseJoan(measured from records)
  2. LatinIohannes(measured from records)
  3. Ancient GreekἸωάννηςIōánnēs(measured from records)
  4. HebrewיוחנןYôḥānān“Yahweh is gracious”(measured from records)

From Old Galician-Portuguese Joan, from Latin Iohannes, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוחנן (Yôḥānān, “Yahweh is gracious”).

Sources 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Xān counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Xān is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France—650——
ES Spain—308——
AZ Azerbaijan—300——
US United States—245—4
NL Netherlands—21—1

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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Xān is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Xan, Xán, Xân

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Xān under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Xān mean, and where does it come from?
From Old Galician-Portuguese Joan, from Latin Iohannes, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוחנן (Yôḥānān, “Yahweh is gracious”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
Is Xān a male or female name?
Xān 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 Xān have the most bearers?
Xān is most frequently recorded in France.

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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, “Xān”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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