Degan

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Dégán ɖé / gǎn dé n

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

Degan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 192K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 234K
  • USUnited States1 in 484K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

1,105 people

Sources
65 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 192K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in French

Dégán ɖé / gǎn dé n. douane gǎn n. chef, responsable Chef douanier Nom d’un dignitaire du roi qui s’occupait des affaires douanières. Ce dignitaire a été installé depuis la prise de Savi, à Gléxwé où s’étaient installées toutes les embarcations portuaires.

Sources 1

  • Le dictionnaire etymologique des noms propres de personnes au Benin (langues fon et francais)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Degan 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 Degan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1,1051 in 192K1.1KDegan65
US United States6871 in 484K747Degan36
AR Argentina571 in 798K57Degan22
IN India471 in 28M47—1
ES Spain251 in 2M25Degan7
BE Belgium171 in 689K17—1
SI Slovenia91 in 234K9—1

1,105 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)

Degan is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Benin

    Also written Dégãń, Dègan

  • Chinese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China

    Also written De-Gan

43 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)

Degan 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.

  • In Italian, forma reduzida ou apocopada de Degano.

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Italian, Variante di Degani

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • In Welsh, soft mutation of tegan (“toy”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Romanian, a surname transferred from the place name

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In goh, retainer, thane, warrior

    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)

175018001850190019502000Jemima Degen Purviance, b. 1787Ferdinando Degan, b. 1901Teresina Degan, b. 1926Costante Degan, b. 1930Dorin Degan, b. 1959

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 Mr Degan,
InformalHi Degan,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 32 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Degan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.1K#8,463
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020747#32,900
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000710#30,929
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010687#33,280
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—57—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—47#46,423
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—25#72,830
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—25#71,513
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—21#75,797
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200817#52,790
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—9#20,688
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

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

How do you pronounce Degan?
A machine transcription gives /ˈdiɡən/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Degan mean?
Recorded meaning: Dégán ɖé / gǎn dé n.
In which country does Degan have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Degan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled degan.
Where is Degan most common?
Degan is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 192 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Degan?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,105 people named Degan, about 1 in 192 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, “Degan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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