Gajan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡəʒən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gajan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French Gajan, itself from Occitan Gajan.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 60K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 509K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 765K
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.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 60K (inferred from the name graph)
≈380 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
- FrenchGajan(measured from records)
- OccitanGajan(measured from records)
Borrowed from French Gajan, itself from Occitan Gajan.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gajan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Gajan | 10 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Gajan | 7 |
| AU Australia | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 509K | 1 | Gajan | 37 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Gajan | 33 |
| US United States | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 9.8M | 135 | Gajan | 102 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 765K | 9 | — | 2 |
| SG Singapore | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 972K | — | Gajan | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)
Gajan 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 French, Gajan (a village in Ariège department, Occitania, France)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, accusative singular of gaja
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)
- Étienne Gajanb. 1890FRFrench athlete
- Koloman Gajanb. 1918CZCzechoslovak historian (1918-2011)
- Christian Gajanb. 1957FRrugby union player
- Hokie Gajanb. 1959USAmerican football player (1959-2016)
- Olivier Gajanb. 2000FRFrench film editor
- Adam Gajanb. 2004SKSlovak 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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 135 | #131,120 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 132 | #121,058 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 117 | #142,108 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 9 | #65,843 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #81,715 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
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 Gajan mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French Gajan, itself from Occitan Gajan. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Gajan?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡəʒən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Gajan a male or female name?
- Gajan 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 Gajan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 382 people named Gajan in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gajan.
- How common is the name Gajan?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 5 people named Gajan, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Gajan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gajanThe 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, “Gajan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.