Jiàn
surname · Latin script
Jiàn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: name borne by descendants of Xu Jianbo, a senior official of the state of Jin during the Spring and Autumn period (722-481 BC).
- USUnited States1 in 36K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 38K
- DKDenmark1 in 61K
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
- 87 (measured from records)
- 1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
9,308 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jian in US United States, PL Poland.
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)
name borne by descendants of Xu Jianbo, a senior official of the state of Jin during the Spring and Autumn period (722-481 BC).
Sources 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jiàn 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 9,308 | 1 in 36K | 6.8K | Jian | 40 |
| BR Brazil | 1,695 | 1 in 125K | 1.7K | — | — |
| ES Spain | 406 | 1 in 123K | 406 | — | 5 |
| SE Sweden | 269 | 1 in 38K | 269 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 106 | 1 in 361K | 88 | Jian | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 97 | 1 in 61K | 53 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 52 | 1 in 98K | 52 | — | — |
9,308 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hans Giengb. 1500CHnot in their usual nameSwiss sculptor
- Shun Chiennot in their usual nameactor
- Jian EQing dynasty person CBDB = 117967
- Jian Shimother of Heben
- Jianperson, CBDB ID = 399946
- Jian Youkaiperson, CBDB ID = 429919
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jiàn mean, and where does it come from?
- name borne by descendants of Xu Jianbo, a senior official of the state of Jin during the Spring and Autumn period (722-481 BC). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Jiàn have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.3 thousand people named Jiàn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jian.
- Where is Jiàn most common?
- Jiàn is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 36 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jiàn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,308 people named Jiàn in 2020, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ji%C3%A0nThe 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, “Jiàn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.