Zhàn

surname · Latin script

Zhàn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 26K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 90K
  • SISlovenia1 in 105K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

1,909 people

Sources
142 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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

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)

recorded in Vietnamese

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Sources 2

  • Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
  • Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zhàn 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 Zhàn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain1,9091 in 26K1.9KZhan38
US United States1,1041 in 301K2.3KZhan40
BR Brazil961 in 2.2M96——
SE Sweden951 in 107K95—1
BE Belgium651 in 180K65Zhan6
FI Finland621 in 90K62—1
NO Norway381 in 144K38—1
SI Slovenia201 in 105K20——

1,909 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)

Zhàn is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in China, United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

    Also written Zhan, Źhañ

  • English surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, China, Malaysia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Zhan, Zhaen, Zhàñ, Zhän, Žhán

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1400160018002000Zhan Ruoshui, b. 1466Kim Cham, b. 1946Jessica Jann, b. 1989Zhan Ying, b. 1995

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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Zhàn 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

In which country does Zhàn have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Zhàn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zhan.
Where is Zhàn most common?
Zhàn is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 26 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Zhàn?
In Spain, the national register counted 1,909 people named Zhàn, about 1 in 26 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, “Zhàn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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