Guān
given name · Latin script
Guān is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From American Spanish, from Kuna kwama.
- USUnited States1 in 46K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 55K
- FIFinland1 in 57K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
7,247 people, 2010
Reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
- AmericanSpanish(measured from records)
- Kunakwama(measured from records)
From American Spanish, from Kuna kwama.
Sources 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Guān 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.
7,247 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Li Guanb. 766Tang dynasty person CBDB = 92926
- Chen Guanb. 1367Ming dynasty person CBDB = 131056
- Wang Guanb. 1384politician
- Wang Guanb. 1448Ming dynasty person CBDB = 26176
- Cheng Guanb. 1995CNChinese Go player
- Chen GuanMing dynasty person CBDB = 131057
- Liu GuanMing dynasty person CBDB = 253965
- Zhang GuanSong dynasty person (CBDB = 8014)
- Zhang GuanMing dynasty person CBDB = 287018
- Wang GuanCNMing dynasty person CBDB = 70439
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 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Guān mean, and where does it come from?
- From American Spanish, from Kuna kwama. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Is Guān a male or female name?
- Guān 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 Guān have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.2 thousand people named Guān, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Guān most common?
- Guān is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 46 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Guān?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,247 people named Guān in 2010, about 1 in 46 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gu%C4%81nThe 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, “Guān”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.