Uan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/waŋ˧˥/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Uan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ALAlbania1 in 205K(measured from records)
- ESSpain≈1 in 653K
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 205K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Uan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Uan | 24 |
| BR Brazil | 109 | 1 in 1.9M | 146 | Uan | 19 |
| ES Spain | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 653K | — | Uan | 25 |
| PH Philippines | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Uan | 8 |
| CL Chile | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Uan | 7 |
| AL Albania | 15 | 1 in 205K | 15 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Uan is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Indonesian, acronym of ujian akhir nasional (“national final examination”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In frd, pointed digging stick
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In tnw, gray hair
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Scottish Gaelic, lamb
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gah, rain
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In wuu, Hard
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
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)
- Ma Yuanb. 1160CNnot in their usual nameChinese painter from Song Dynasty (1160-1225)
- Wu Rongyuanb. 1949TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese politician
- Khaw Boon Wanb. 1952MYnot in their usual nameformer Singaporean politician
- Sun Yuanb. 1981CNnot in their usual nameChinese Go player
- Yuan Wanb. 1997DEnot in their usual nameGerman table tennis player
- Guo Yuannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 300486
- Guo Yuannot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 155884
- Zhou Yuannot in their usual namepolitician
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 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 146 | #14,569 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 130 | #32,020 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 109 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 106 | #38,860 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 72 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 38 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 37 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 34 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 20 | — |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 15 | #8,567 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 14 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
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
- How do you pronounce Uan?
- A machine transcription gives /waŋ˧˥/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- Is Uan a male or female name?
- Uan 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 Uan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 120 people named Uan in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled uan.
- Where is Uan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Uan is densest in Albania — about 1 in 205 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Uan?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 109 people named Uan in 2022, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Uan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/uanThe 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, “Uan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.