Ān
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Hanyu Pinyin reading of 侒
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ān is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 41K
- ISIceland1 in 21K
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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 224 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈42,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled An in VN Vietnam, DZ Algeria and Ân in US United States.
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)Hanyu Pinyin reading of 侒
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ān 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.
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)Ān 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 bzq, food; to eat
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In bhw, to eat
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)- Yuan Anb. 100first century Han dynasty scholar, administrator and statesman
- Liu Anb. 179Han dynasty scholar
- Pan Yueb. 247CNnot in their usual nameJin dynasty poet
- Zhu Anb. 1878wife of Lu Xun
- Chu Anpingb. 1909CNnot in their usual nameChinese scholar (1909-1966)
- An Wangb. 1920USAmerican businessman (1920–1990)
- Ang Leeb. 1954TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese film director, screenwriter and producer (born 1954)
- Huang Anb. 1962TWTaiwanese singer
- Jo Anb. 1982KRSouth Korean actress
- Lily Zhangb. 1996USnot in their usual nameAmerican table tennis player
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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Ān mean, and where does it come from?
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 侒 Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ān a male or female name?
- Ān 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 Ān have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Ān in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled an.
- How common is the name Ān?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,800 people named Ān in 2020, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
- How common is Ān compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Ān is the 207th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%81nThe 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, “Ān” — the 207th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.