Žvan
surname · Latin script
/ʐʋan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Žvan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 10K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 223K
- PLPoland1 in 19Mas Zhvan
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Žvan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
208 people
recorded for this name
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:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Žvan 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.
208 people counted by stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
- Anton Žvanb. 1927SISlovenian philosopher
- Andreja Žvanb. 1963SIresearcher
- Miha Žvanb. 1978SIresearcher
- Ziga Zvanb. 1981SIchess player
- Milan ŽvanSIresearcher
- Bojana ŽvanSIresearcher
- Vukosav ŽvanSIresearcher
- Nina ŽvanSIresearcher
- Andraž ŽvanSISlovenian jurist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 208 | #2,035 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 19 | #23,767 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 18 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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
- How do you pronounce Žvan?
- A machine transcription gives /ʐʋan/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- In which country does Žvan have the most bearers?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 208 people named Žvan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled žvan.
- Where is Žvan most common?
- Žvan is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 10 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Žvan?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 208 people named Žvan, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Žvan?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%BEvanThe 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, “Žvan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.