Zamàn

given name · Latin script

Zamàn is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish زمان (zamân), from Old Anatolian Turkish زمان (zamân), from Persian زمان (zamân).

rarermore common
  • GYGuyana1 in 5.1K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 9.8K
  • NONorway1 in 13K

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.

United States (measured from records)

3,694 people, 2010

Record sources
125 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Zaman in US United States, BE Belgium, ES Spain.

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 Zamàn: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Zamàn
  1. Ottoman Turkishزمانzamân(measured from records)
  2. Old Anatolian Turkishزمانzamân(measured from records)
  3. Persianزمانzamân(measured from records)

From Ottoman Turkish زمان (zamân), from Old Anatolian Turkish زمان (zamân), from Persian زمان (zamân).

Cited for this meaning 5

  • Dictionary of Islamic Names
  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Wiktionary
  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Zamàn 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.

Where Zamàn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3,6941 in 90K5.5KZaman28
BE Belgium7341 in 16K761Zaman24
ES Spain7131 in 70K713Zaman2
NO Norway4281 in 13K428—1
SE Sweden2681 in 38K268—2
SI Slovenia2141 in 9.8K214——
GY Guyana1481 in 5.1K148——
DM Dominica31 in 25K3——

3,694 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Zamàn 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 Zamàn mean, and where does it come from?
From Ottoman Turkish زمان (zamân), from Old Anatolian Turkish زمان (zamân), from Persian زمان (zamân). Recorded by Dictionary of Islamic Names and TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and 3 other sources.
In which country does Zamàn have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Zamàn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zaman.
Where is Zamàn most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zamàn is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 5.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Zamàn?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,694 people named Zamàn in 2010, about 1 in 90 thousand residents.

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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, “Zamàn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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