Daan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: männl. Vom., niederländische Kurz form von
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/daːn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Daan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 647(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M
- BEBelgium≈1 in 4.7K
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- 1 in 647 (inferred from the name graph)
26,700 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
männl. Vom., niederländische Kurz form von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Daan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #587 | 26,700 | 1 in 647 | 26K | Daan | 118 |
| CN China | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 447K | — | Daan | 15 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Daan | 46 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Daan | 24 |
| US United States | — | 185 | 1 in 1.8M | 162 | Daan | 112 |
| SE Sweden | — | 59 | 1 in 173K | 59 | Daan | 7 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 163K | 70 | Daan | 5 |
26,700 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Daan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Khmer, (in) n, customs office (arch,), ens^arija south sid e. w footprint. to s e w , to mend, to patch up, to darn
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
In bnn, road, path
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In sjm, old (with respect to objects, in the sense of being worn, used often, out of date, out of fashion, etc.)’
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In tsg, old (in the sense of worn, out-of-date, out of fashion, as of cloth, clothes, shoes, books, or houses)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Estonian, Dan, the fifth son of Jacob
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Daan van Goldenb. 1936NLDutch painter (1936-2017)
- Daan Jippesb. 1945NLcartoonist (born 1945)
- Daan Frenkelb. 1948NLDutch physicist
- Daan Remmerts de Vriesb. 1962NLDutch writer
- Daan Schuurmansb. 1972NLDutch actor (born 1972)
- Daan Roosegaardeb. 1979NLDutch artist (born 1979)
- Daan Breeuwsmab. 1987NLDutch short-track speed skater
- Daan Hooleb. 1999NLDutch bicycle racer
- Daan Rotsb. 2001NLDutch association football player
- Daan Lennard Liebrenzb. 2005DEGerman actor
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Daan have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 27 thousand people named Daan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled daan.
- Where is Daan most common?
- Daan is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 647 people carrying it.
- How do you pronounce Daan?
- A machine transcription gives /daːn/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- What are other forms of the name Daan?
- In the etymology graph, Daniel, Dan and Danny are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Daniël.
- What does the name Daan mean?
- Recorded meaning: männl. Vom., niederländische Kurz form von
- Is Daan a male or female name?
- Daan 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.
- How common is the name Daan?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 26,700 people named Daan, about 1 in 647 residents.
- How common is Daan compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Daan is the 587th most common given name of 101,916 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/daanThe 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, “Daan” — the 587th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.