Crișan
org · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Crișan is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- RORomania≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 697K
- ESSpain1 in 57K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Crisan in RO Romania, US United States, ES Spain and 1 more.
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 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Crișan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #111 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Crisan | 89 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 67K | listed | Crisan | 28 |
| ES Spain | — | 885 | 1 in 57K | 885 | Crisan | 45 |
| US United States | — | 477 | 1 in 697K | 579 | Crisan | 143 |
| FR France | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 193K | 11 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 52 | 1 in 113K | 52 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 52 | 1 in 105K | 52 | — | 8 |
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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Traian Crișanb. 1918RORomanian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
- Mircea Krishanb. 1924ROnot in their usual nameRomanian German actor (1924-2013)
- Ion Horațiu Crișanb. 1928RORomanian historian, archaeologist (1928-1994)
- Zoltan Crișanb. 1955RORomanian footballer (1955-2003)
- Alexandru Crișanb. 1962RORomanian chess player
- Marian Crișanb. 1979RORomanian film director
- Adrian Crișanb. 1980ROtable tennis player
- Cristian Dumitru Crișanb. 1981RORomanian Catholic bishop
- Radu Crișanb. 1996ROassociation football player
- Ioan CrișanRORomanian politician from Vladimirescu, Arad County
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)
Attested in 4 sources across 1 country.
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
- In which country does Crișan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Crișan in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled crisan.
- How common is the name Crișan?
- In Spain, the national register counted 885 people named Crișan, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.
- How common is Crișan compared with other names?
- In Romania, Crișan is the 111th most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cri%C8%99anThe 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, “Crișan” — the 111th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.