Flavian
given name · Latin script
Meaning: of or pertaining to the Flavian Dynasty, between the years 69 and 96 AD
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/flavjɑ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Flavian is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 98K(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 9.1K
- MDMoldova1 in 49K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
of or pertaining to the Flavian Dynasty, between the years 69 and 96 AD
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Flavian 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | — | Flavian | 2 |
| FR France | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 98K | 780 | Flavian | 150 |
| US United States | 127 | 1 in 2.6M | 108 | Flavian | 10 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 71K | 3 | — | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 112 | 1 in 1.9M | 112 | — | — |
| MD Moldova | 68 | 1 in 49K | 68 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 15 | 1 in 50K | 15 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; e-services.md — living population register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Flavian is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Roman imperial dynasty
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Latin; golden-haired
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In Russian, de flavus, jaune.
as a nameRussian Names
In Russian, "golden."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Flavian I of Antiochb. 320TR4th-century Patriarch of Antioch
- Flavian II of Antiochb. 401TRPatriarch of Antioch
- Flavian Gorodetskyb. 1841RUExarchs of Georgia (1898–1901)
- James F. Whiteb. 1935USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician, Minnesota
- Alphonsus D’Souzab. 1939INnot in their usual nameRoman Catholic bishop (1939-2016)
- Flavian Aponsob. 1952NLSri Lankan cricketer
- Flavian Kassalab. 1967TZTanzanian Roman Catholic bishop
- Flavian Graberb. 1985CHSwiss songwriter
- Flavian Dairb. 2002FRFrench ice hockey 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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2015 | 780 | #2,500 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 112 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 108 | #49,173 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 88 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 83 | #38,089 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 78 | #40,708 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 68 | #1,131 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 64 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 61 | #25,644 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 35 | #43,147 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 35 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 29 | #38,089 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- What does the name Flavian mean, and where does it come from?
- of or pertaining to the Flavian Dynasty, between the years 69 and 96 AD Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Flavian?
- In the etymology graph, Flavien, Flaviano and Flavianus are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Flavian?
- A machine transcription gives /flavjɑ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Flavian a male or female name?
- Flavian is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Flavian have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.4 thousand people named Flavian in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled flavian.
- How common is the name Flavian?
- In the United States, the national register counted 127 people named Flavian in 2020, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Flavian?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/flavianThe 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, “Flavian”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.