Zàn
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zàn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variante di Zanni.
- BRBrazil1 in 120K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 292K
- SISlovenia1 in 46K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- 1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
1,763 people
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zan in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, US United States and 1 more and Žan in SI Slovenia.
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)
Variante di Zanni
Sources 3
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zàn 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.
1,763 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Liu Zanb. 250son of Liu Chan
- Ni Zanb. 1301CNChinese painter (1301-1374)
- Yang Zanb. 1422politician
- Zhang Zanb. 1427politician
- Hou Zanb. 1427Ming dynasty person CBDB = 129272
- Mao Zanb. 1499politician
- Chen Zuanb. 1518not in their usual namepolitician
- Gongsun ZanCNChinese warlord and general (died 199)
- Jiang ZanMing dynasty person CBDB = 264832
- Yang Zanpolitician
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zàn mean, and where does it come from?
- Variante di Zanni Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Zàn have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Zàn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zan.
- Where is Zàn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zàn is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 46 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zàn?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,763 people named Zàn, about 1 in 120 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Zàn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/z%C3%A0nThe 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, “Zàn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.