Ďan
surname · Latin script
Ďan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: table From Middle English dan, daun, dam (“lord”), from Anglo-Norman daun, daunz and Old French dan, dam, from Latin dominus. Doublet of don.
- SESweden1 in 455(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 798
- DKDenmark1 in 948
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 (measured from records)
- #519 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 629 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 253 (inferred from the name graph)
127,523 people, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Dan in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Englishdan“lord”(measured from records)
- Anglo-Normandaun(measured from records)
- Latindominus(measured from records)
table From Middle English dan, daun, dam (“lord”), from Anglo-Norman daun, daunz and Old French dan, dam, from Latin dominus. Doublet of don.
Cited for this meaning 12
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- YorubaName Dictionary (CC0, tone-marked Yoruba names with meaning/etymology)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ďan 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 | #225 | 127,523 | 1 in 2.6K | 124K | Dan | 629 |
| RO Romania | #824 | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 253 | — | Dan | 127 |
| NG Nigeria | #594 | ≈81,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Dan | 84 |
| GB United Kingdom | #274 | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Dan | 347 |
| CA Canada | #136 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 798 | 7 | Dan | 338 |
| SE Sweden | #202 | 22,427 | 1 in 455 | 22K | Dan | 126 |
| DK Denmark | #107 | 6,189 | 1 in 948 | 6.2K | Dan | 172 |
| MD Moldova | — | 5,730 | 1 in 587 | 5.7K | — | 52 |
127,523 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); e-services.md — living population register. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ďan mean, and where does it come from?
- table From Middle English dan, daun, dam (“lord”), from Anglo-Norman daun, daunz and Old French dan, dam, from Latin dominus. Doublet of don. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A concise dictionary of first names and 10 other sources.
- In which country does Ďan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 128 thousand people named Ďan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dan.
- How common is the name Ďan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 127,523 people named Ďan in 2020, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Ďan compared with other names?
- In the United States, Ďan is the 225th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%8FanThe 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, “Ďan” — the 225th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.