Garan

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Garan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Cigueña.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 2.1M(measured from records)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 41K
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 158K

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,700 people, est.

Sources
20 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Cigueña

Sources 1

  • 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

Where in the world(measured from records)

Garan 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.

Where Garan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈2,700 est.≈1 in 41K—Garan11
IN India6221 in 2.1M622Garan20
MY Malaysia≈210 est.≈1 in 158K—Garan11
US United States1961 in 1.7M287Garan9
PL Poland731 in 524K37——
SG Singapore≈32 est.≈1 in 196K—Garan4
HU Hungary≈29 est.≈1 in 338K—Garan19
NO Norway121 in 456K12——

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Garan is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, India, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Gaeran, Ğaran, Gäran, Garãn

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Mexico, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Gàran, Gãran, Garãn

  • Turkish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Philippines, India

    Also written Ğåraň, Ğaran, Garãn

  • Swahili surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, India, Nigeria

    Also written Gãran

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gàran

  • Slovak surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Poland, United States

    Languages: Slovak, Polish

    Also written Gäran

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Garan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Cigüeña

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In Kurdish, Herd, flock

    as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary

  • In Welsh, crane, bird of the family Gruidae

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In kw, crane (bird)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In cel-bry-pro, crane, heron

    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)

1850190019502000Vedat Garan, b. 1895Sulhi Garan, b. 1916Ronald J. Garan, b. 1961Gina Garan, b. 1964Olena Haran, b. 1977Pavol Garan, b. 1978

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 23 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Garan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—622#7,825
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020287#72,902
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000207#84,310
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010196#93,513
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202637—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—37#61,113
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202636—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—36#61,719
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—12#54,021
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—3#37,740
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—3#52,036
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Garan mean, and where does it come from?
Cigueña Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
In which country does Garan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Garan in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garan.
How common is the name Garan?
In India, the national register counted 622 people named Garan, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.

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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, “Garan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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