Assan
loc · Latin script
Meaning: v. HARSANT
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Assan is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kazakhstan than in any other country.
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 945as Asan(inferred from the name graph)
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 2.4Kas Асан
- UAUkraine≈1 in 24Kas Асан
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 Assan 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.
- Kazakhstan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 102K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,000 named Асан, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Асан in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and 2 more and Aşan in MK North Macedonia.
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)
v. HARSANT
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Assan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KZ Kazakhstan | #485 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 11K | Асан | 46 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #249 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 945 | — | Асан | 17 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 36K | #672 | Асан | 118 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Асан | 10 |
| UA Ukraine | #434 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Асан | 20 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 1,102as Асан | 1 in 1.9K | 1.1K | Aşan | 4 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 482 | — | 2 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 102K | 169 | — | 5 |
| SE Sweden | — | 55 | 1 in 186K | 235 | — | 7 |
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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence; State Statistical Office — living population names; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies. 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)
Assan 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 English, An extinct Yeniseian language formerly spoken in Russia.
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)
- Assan Musa Camarab. 1923GMGambian politician (1923-2013)
- Valérie Assanb. 1967FRFrench historian
- Assan Smatib. 1972FRFrench sculptor
- Assan Johnb. 1978GMGambian athletics competitor
- Assan Bazayevb. 1981KZroad bicycle racer
- Assan Jattab. 1984GMGambian footballer
- Asan Darbaevb. 1984KZKazakh politician
- Asan Tahtahunovb. 1986KZKazakhstani ski jumper who has competed since 2003
- Assan Ceesayb. 1994GMGambian association football player
- Assan Ouédraogob. 2006DEGerman footballer
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 49 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 169 | #2,475 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #81,264 |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Assan mean, and where does it come from?
- v. HARSANT Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Assan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.0 thousand people named Асан in Kazakhstan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Assan?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 55 people named Assan, about 1 in 186 thousand residents.
- How common is Assan compared with other names?
- In Kazakhstan, Assan is the 485th most common given name of 274,628 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Assan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/assanThe 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, “Assan” — the 485th most common given name in Kazakhstan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.