Margan

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/mɑɹɡən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Margan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): scattered: esp.. locative name from Margam (Glamorgan), which is recorded as Margan in the 12th century.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 21K
  • SISlovenia1 in 70K

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.

Romania (inferred from the name graph)

≈260 people, est.

Sources
90 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Main GB Location (1881): scattered: esp.. locative name from Margam (Glamorgan), which is recorded as Margan in the 12th century.

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Where in the world(measured from records)

Margan 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 Margan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RO Romania≈260 est.≈1 in 82K—Margan5
HR Croatia2031 in 21K203——
US United States1971 in 1.7M353Margan90
PL Poland831 in 461K48——
FR France≈70 est.≈1 in 970K7—1
SI Slovenia301 in 70K30—2
GY Guyana81 in 94K8Margan4
DM Dominica11 in 74K1——

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 — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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)

Margan is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, United States, Slovenia

    Languages: Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian

    Also written Марган

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Brazil, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Margãn

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Marǧān

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Mărgan

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, United States, Türkiye, Saudi Arabia

    Also written Marǧān

  • Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, Spain

    Also written Mărgan

34 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)

Margan 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 non, strong masculine accusative singular of margr

    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)

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)

FormalDear Ms Margan,
InformalHi Margan,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 31 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Margan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020353#61,433
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000229#77,742
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021203#4,105
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010197#93,125
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021192—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202648—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—48#51,265
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202635—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—35#63,681
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—30#10,691
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195113—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196110—

Reference works 5

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 Margan mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): scattered: esp.. locative name from Margam (Glamorgan), which is recorded as Margan in the 12th century. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
How do you pronounce Margan?
A machine transcription gives /mɑɹɡən/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Margan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 260 people named Margan in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled margan.
Where is Margan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Margan is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 21 thousand people — even though Romania holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Margan?
In Croatia, the national register counted 203 people named Margan in 2021, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.

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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, “Margan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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