Şayan

surname · Latin script

Meaning: fitting, suitable, worthy

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Şayan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 52K(inferred from the name graph)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 326K
  • NONorway1 in 391K

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.

Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,600 people, est.

Sources
67 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

fitting, suitable, worthy

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Şayan 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.

Where Şayan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye≈1,600 est.≈1 in 52K—Şayan67
US United States3001 in 1.1M425—55
NL Netherlands531 in 326K53—8
ES Spain491 in 1M49—3
AR Argentina351 in 1.3M35——
BE Belgium151 in 781K15Şayan4
NO Norway141 in 391K24—3
CH Switzerland111 in 764K11—2

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Şayan is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Sāyan, Šāyān, Sayán, Sayan

  • Bulgarian given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kazakhstan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Саян, Saian, Sayan, Sayán, Saяn

  • Russian given name30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kazakhstan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Kazakh, Uzbek

    Also written Саян, Саяны, Saian, Сайан, Sajan

17 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Şayan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Turkish, Yakışır, yaraşır, uygun.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

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)

1970198019902000Shayan Munshi, b. 1978Shayan Chowdhury Arnob, b. 1978Shayan Modarres, b. 1984Shayan Taghavi, b. 1992Shayan Sobhian, b. 1994Shayan Mohammadmoradi, b. 2000

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)

Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 1

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)

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 Şayan mean, and where does it come from?
fitting, suitable, worthy Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Şayan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Şayan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled şayan.
How common is the name Şayan?
In the United States, the national register counted 300 people named Şayan in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9Fayan

The 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, “Şayan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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