Gyan
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 27 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Gyan is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 150K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 425K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 460K
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 Gyan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nepal, 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 জ্ঞান in BD Bangladesh.
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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gyan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 1 | Gyan | 50 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Gyan | 17 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Gyan | 52 |
| US United States | — | 557 | 1 in 597K | 440 | Gyan | 118 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 357K | — | জ্ঞান | 4 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Gyan | 9 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 233 | 1 in 74K | 233 | Gyan | 3 |
| IN India | #932 | — | — | 185 | Gyan | 144 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)Gyan 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 English, Alternative form of jnana, reflecting the Hindi pronunciation /ɡjɑːn/
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kcg, shallow
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)- Gyan Evansb. 1960AUAustralian singer-songwriter, record producer
- Gyan Prakash Upadhyayab. 1964INIndian Administrative Service officer
- Gyan Rileyb. 1977USAmerican guitarist
- Gyan Sebastião Macedob. 1995BRBrazilian paralympic table tennis player
- Gyan Chandra AcharyaNPNepalese diplomat
- Gyanchand ParakhINnot in their usual nameIndian politician
- Gyan Raj KoiralaKRresearcher
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)46 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 27 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Is Gyan a male or female name?
- Gyan is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Brazil (IBGE, 2022) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- In which country does Gyan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Gyan in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gyan.
- How common is the name Gyan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 557 people named Gyan in 2020, about 1 in 597 thousand residents.
- How common is Gyan compared with other names?
- In India, Gyan is the 932nd most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gyanThe 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, “Gyan” — the 932nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.