Xoán
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: RENAPER, 2012
Xoán is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Galician-Portuguese Joan, from Latin Iohannes, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוחנן (Yôḥānān, “Yahweh is gracious”).
- ESSpain1 in 69K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 1.7M
- CLChile≈1 in 2.8M
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- 1 in 69K (inferred from the name graph)
723 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Xoan in ES Spain, AR Argentina, CL Chile.
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)- Old Galician-PortugueseJoan(measured from records)
- LatinIohannes(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekἸωάννηςIōánnēs(measured from records)
- 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”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Xoán 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.
723 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Xoán is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, a male given name, equivalent to English John
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Galician form of JOHN ; See also JUAN .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- João Fernandes Andeirob. 1320ESnot in their usual nameGalician nobleman
- Johán Vicente Viqueira Cortónb. 1886ESnot in their usual nameSpanish writer (1886-1924)
- Xoán Xesús Gonzálezb. 1895ESSpanish author
- Xoán Vidal Martínezb. 1904ESSpanish politician and poet (1904-1994)
- Xoán Piñeiro Nogueirab. 1920ESSpanish sculptor (1920-1980)
- Xoán Ignacio Taibob. 1949ESSpanish writer
- Xoán Anleob. 1960ESSpanish sculptor (1960 - )
- Xoán Pérezb. 1968ESSpanish actor from Galicia
- Xoán Paredesb. 1975ESSpanish geographer
- Xoán DavilaESSpanish sculptor ( -1610)
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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1997 | 4 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2012 | 2 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 does the name Xoán 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.
- What are other forms of the name Xoán?
- In the etymology graph, John, Jack and Sean are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Xoán a male or female name?
- Xoán 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 Xoán have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 723 people named Xoán, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled xoan.
- Where is Xoán most common?
- Xoán is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 69 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Xoán?
- In Spain, the national register counted 723 people named Xoán, about 1 in 69 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Xoán?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/xo%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, “Xoán”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.