Dayan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A rabbinic judge
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Dayan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 101K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 3.5K
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 4.7K
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)
- Sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A rabbinic judge
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dayan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Dayan | 12 |
| IL Israel | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Dayan | 30 |
| PH Philippines | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Dayan | 19 |
| FR France | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 74K | 1.5K | — | 1 |
| US United States | 828 | 1 in 402K | 1.1K | Dayan | 169 |
| AR Argentina | 450 | 1 in 101K | 450 | Dayan | 51 |
| PA Panama | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Dayan | 26 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Dayan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
juiz rabínico; rabbinical judge
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
membro da corte rabínica
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
judge; rabbi
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In English, Moshe, Israeli leader
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
rabbinic judge. Pairs.: Ben-Dayan, Bar-Dayan. Dayczman see Deutsch Dayment see Diamond Dayne see Dain D’Azeglio see Aiello D’Azzi see Ace De Andreis see Andrew De Angelis see Angel De Antoni see Anthony
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
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)
- Samuel Dayanb. 1891ILIsraeli politician (1891–1968)
- Moshe Dayanb. 1915ILIsraeli military leader and politician (1915–1981)
- Arie Birob. 1927ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli military officer
- Yael Dayanb. 1939ILIsraeli politician (1939–2024)
- Josée Dayanb. 1943FRFrench film director
- Assi Dayanb. 1945ILIsraeli film director, actor, screenwriter and film producer (1945-2014)
- Uzi Dayanb. 1948ILIsraeli politician
- Dani Dayanb. 1955ILIsraeli political leader, entrepreneur, Yad Vashem chairman
- Peter Dayanb. 1965DEcomputational neuroscience researcher
- Rebecca Dayanb. 1984FRFrench actress
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 79 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,289 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 828 | #28,746 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 648 | #33,248 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 450 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 140 | — |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Dayan mean, and where does it come from?
- A rabbinic judge Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Dayan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Dayan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dayan.
- How common is the name Dayan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 828 people named Dayan in 2010, about 1 in 402 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dayanThe 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, “Dayan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.