Yaan
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Yaan is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 3.7M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 19M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.7M (inferred from the name graph)
58 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yaan 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.
58 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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); the mx-cdmx-nombres register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). 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)Yaan is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In zab, corncob
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tli, hunger
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In szy, when
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dag, polite imperative, after a verb
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
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.
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 58 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 57 | #60,128 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 34 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 24 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2 | #45,332 |
| MX Mexico | CDMX — Nombres registrados en Registro Civil (2000–present) | 2021 | 1 | — |
| MX Mexico | CDMX — Nombres registrados en Registro Civil (2000–present) | 2016 | 1 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Yaan a male or female name?
- Yaan is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Yaan have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 58 people named Yaan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yaan.
- Where is Yaan most common?
- Yaan is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.7 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Yaan?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 58 people named Yaan in 2022, about 1 in 3.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Yaan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yaanThe 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, “Yaan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.