Day-An

given name · Latin script

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

Day-An is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Hebrew דיין.

  • ARArgentina1 in 101K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 153K
  • DKDenmark1 in 267K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

828 people, 2010

Record sources
248 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 101K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Dayan in US United States, ES Spain, CH Switzerland.

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)

From Hebrew דיין.

Cited for this meaning 4

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Where the surname Day-An is found

(measured from records)

Day-An 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 Day-An is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States8281 in 402K1.1KDayan248
AR Argentina4501 in 101K450——
CH Switzerland551 in 153K55Dayan8
PL Poland551 in 696K28—1
ES Spain511 in 981K187Dayan19
DK Denmark221 in 267K22—1
NO Norway161 in 342K72—2

828 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Day-An under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Day-An mean, and where does it come from?
From Hebrew דיין. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 2 other sources.
Is Day-An a male or female name?
Day-An is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Day-An?
In the United States, the national register counted about 828 people named Day-An, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dayan. After it come Argentina, Switzerland, Poland and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Day-An most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Day-An is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 101 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Day-An?
In the United States, the national register counted 828 people named Day-An in 2010, about 1 in 402 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, “Day-An”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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