Waran
surname · Latin script
Meaning: warrant (an option, usually issued together with another security and with a term at issue greater than a year, to buy other securities of the issuer)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/wɔɹən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Waran is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia≈1 in 94K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 21K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 22K
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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
warrant (an option, usually issued together with another security and with a term at issue greater than a year, to buy other securities of the issuer)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Waran 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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election. 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)
Waran 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 Polish, monitor lizard (any reptile of the family Varanidae)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of warenne
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, inflection of wær:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, monitor lizard
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Somali, spear
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)
- Sashina Vignes Waranb. 1988FRbadminton player
- Teshana Vignes Waranb. 1989FRbadminton 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 172 | #41,551 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 16 | #12,977 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 1 | #1,042 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Waran mean, and where does it come from?
- warrant (an option, usually issued together with another security and with a term at issue greater than a year, to buy other securities of the issuer) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Waran?
- A machine transcription gives /wɔɹən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Waran have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Waran in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled waran.
- How common is the name Waran?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 172 people named Waran, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/waranThe 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, “Waran”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.