난
surname · Hangul script
Meaning: topic-marked form of 나 (na)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
난 is a surname written in the Hangul script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CNChina≈1 in 3.8Kas Nan(inferred from the name graph)
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 14Kas Nan
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 18Kas Nan
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than 난 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 351 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈360,000 named Nan, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
China, est., as Nan
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nan in US United States, CN China, GB United Kingdom and 4 more and 난주 in KR South Korea.
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)
topic-marked form of 나 (na)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
난 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈360,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Nan | 124 |
| US United States | 9,307as Nan | 1 in 36K | 8.1K | Nan | 351 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 30K | listed | Nan | 110 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Nan | 70 |
| KR South Korea | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 8 | 난주 | 60 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Nan | 36 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Nan | 43 |
| IS Iceland | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 1 | Nan | 3 |
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; KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants; 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | KOSIS 2015 Census — surname x bon-gwan (ancestral seat) population | 2015 | 8 | #9,916 |
| KR South Korea | KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants | 2015 | 8 | #183 |
Reference works 2
- KOSIS Korea 2015 census surnames + clans (bon'gwan)
- 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
- What does the name 난 mean, and where does it come from?
- topic-marked form of 나 (na) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does 난 have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 365 thousand people named Nan in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name 난?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,307 people named Nan in 2020, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about 난?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%EB%82%9CThe 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, “난”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.