Ganan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person plural present indicative of ganar
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ganan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ganan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 27K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 89K
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 Ganan 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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gañan in CO Colombia, ES Spain, VE Venezuela and גנן in IL Israel.
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)
third-person plural present indicative of ganar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ganan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 4 | Gañan | 37 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,843 | 1 in 27K | 1.8K | Gañan | 52 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | Ganan | 21 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Gañan | 10 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Ganan | 10 |
| RE Réunion | #604 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Ganan | 1 |
| IL Israel | — | 87as גנן | 1 in 100K | 87 | גנן | 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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"). 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)
Ganan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Asturian, third-person plural present subjunctive of ganar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, inflection of ganir:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, mettre au monde, enfanter, générer
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)
- Mosheh Gananb. 1931ILIsraeli poet (1931–2021)
- Judith Gañán AceitunoESSpanish researcher
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 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 49 | #45,073 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 49 | #45,014 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Ganan mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person plural present indicative of ganar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ganan?
- A machine transcription gives /ganan/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Ganan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Ganan in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gañan.
- How common is the name Ganan?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,843 people named Ganan, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Ganan compared with other names?
- In Réunion, Ganan is the 604th most common surname of 3,012 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ganan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gananThe 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, “Ganan” — the 604th most common surname in Réunion. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.