Iyan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Iyan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 7.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 73K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 84K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈35,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Iyán in ES Spain and I-Yan in TW Taiwan.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Iyan 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.
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Iyan 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 bik, that, it (near the person spoken to, but away from the speaker)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pam, that (far from the speaker, but near the person addressed)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Yoruba, pounded yam
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Iyan a male or female name?
- Iyan 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 Iyan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 35 thousand people named Iyan in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled iyan.
- How common is the name Iyan?
- In Spain, the national register counted 526 people named Iyan, about 1 in 95 thousand residents.
- How common is Iyan compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Iyan is the 991st most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Iyan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iyanThe 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, “Iyan” — the 991st most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.