Engan
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ənɡən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Engan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 3.1K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 486K
- DKDenmark1 in 978K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
1,770 people
Reference-verified
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Engan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 1,770 | 1 in 3.1K | 1.8K | Engan | 8 |
| US United States | 125 | 1 in 2.7M | 166 | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 21 | 1 in 486K | 21 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 9 | 1 in 5.6M | 9 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 6 | 1 in 978K | 6 | — | — |
1,770 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Engan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Icelandic, accusative masculine singular of enginn (“no one/nothing; none; no ...”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, accusative masculine singular of engi
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)
- Alfred Ingelaus Olsen Enganb. 1887NONorwegian politician
- Erling Enganb. 1910NONorwegian politician
- Hildur Enganb. 1929NONorwegian athletics competitor (1929-2014)
- Toralf Enganb. 1936NONorwegian ski jumper
- Geir Rune Enganb. 1959NONorwegian singer
- Iselin Enganb. 1978NONorwegian designer
- Eirik Enganb. 1979NONorwegian musician
- Veronica Gulbæk Enganb. 1984NONorwegian rally co-driver
- Marlene Gulbæk Enganb. 1987NONorwegian rally driver
- Tine Enganb. 1991NONorwegian association football player
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Engan?
- A machine transcription gives /ənɡən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Engan have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Engan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled engan.
- Where is Engan most common?
- Engan is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Engan?
- In Norway, the national register counted 1,770 people named Engan, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/enganThe 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, “Engan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.