Zhuan
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Zhuan is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Alone; entirely, exclusively; have sole power, make sole object.
- CNChina≈1 in 62Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 3.9Mfew records
- SGSingapore≈1 in 110Kfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 62K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Alone; entirely, exclusively; have sole power, make sole object
Cited for this meaning 1
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zhuan 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.
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)- Zhuan PeiUSPh.D. Princeton University 2012
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zhuan mean, and where does it come from?
- Alone; entirely, exclusively; have sole power, make sole object Recorded by Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007).
- Is Zhuan a male or female name?
- Zhuan 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Zhuan?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Zhuan in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zhuan. After it come Malaysia, United States, Singapore and Taiwan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Zhuan?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23,000 people in China have Zhuan as their first given name, about 1 in 62 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zhuanThe 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, “Zhuan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.