Gaen
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Gaen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 12Kas Gayen(measured from records)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 80Kas Gayen
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 147Kas Gayen
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gaen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
113,098 named Gayen
Highest-authority source
India, as Gayen
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gayen in IN India, US United States, BD Bangladesh and 4 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gaen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #469 | 113,098as Gayen | 1 in 12K | 113K | Gayen | 98 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Gayen | 20 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Gayen | 1 |
| US United States | — | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | listed | Gayen | 52 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Gayen | 2 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 211K | — | Gayen | 1 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 370K | — | Gayen | 2 |
113,098 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)
Gaen 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 sco, alternative spelling of gane
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, soft mutation of caen
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 198 | #17,886 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Gaen?
- In the etymology graph, Gane is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Gaen have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 113 thousand people named Gayen, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gaen most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Gaen itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is India's: the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people named Gayen.
- How common is the name Gaen?
- In India, the national register counted 113,098 people named Gayen, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Gaen compared with other names?
- In India, Gaen is the 469th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gaen?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gaenThe 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, “Gaen” — the 469th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.