Apan
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Apan is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a conjunction (harf) meaning ‘if’.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 3Kas Apon(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 59K
- 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). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Apan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 59K (inferred from the name graph)
≈54,000 named Apon, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Apon in BD Bangladesh, US United States, MY Malaysia and 2 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)
a conjunction (harf) meaning ‘if’
Sources 1
- Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Apan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #225 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Apon | 50 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Apon | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 289as Apon | 1 in 60K | 289 | — | 2 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 196K | — | Apon | 8 |
| US United States | — | 124as Apon | 1 in 2.7M | 125 | Apon | 16 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Apon | 4 |
| NO Norway | — | 14 | 1 in 391K | 14 | — | — |
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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Apan is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, first-person singular present indicative of appaa
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Quechua, third-person singular present indicative of apay
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A member of an amateur press association.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mbs, spotted grasshopper with green mouth
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Swedish, definite singular of apa
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, enthusiastic eagerness
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)
- Mihai ApanRORomanian politician from Apa, Satu Mare County
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 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 14 | #50,194 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Apan mean, and where does it come from?
- a conjunction (harf) meaning ‘if’ Recorded by Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972).
- In which country does Apan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 54 thousand people named Apon in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Apan?
- In Norway, the national register counted 14 people named Apan, about 1 in 391 thousand residents.
- How common is Apan compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Apan is the 225th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Apan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/apanThe 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, “Apan” — the 225th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.