Metan
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/metˈan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Metan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 13M(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 1.5Mas Метан
- RURussia≈1 in 3.6Mas Метан
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 Metan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13M (inferred from the name graph)
≈39 named Метан, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Метан in RU Russia, UA Ukraine.
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 across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Metan 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: INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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)
Metan is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Indonesian, abbreviation of media tanam (“growth medium”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tet, black
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovenian, past passive participle of metáti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, methane (chemical symbol CH₄)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, inflection of meter:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, methane (as above)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #276,829 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Metan?
- A machine transcription gives /metˈan/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Metan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 39 people named Метан in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Metan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Metan is densest in Poland — about 1 in 13 million people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Metan?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3 people named Metan in 2026, about 1 in 13 million residents.
What do you want to know about Metan?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/metanThe 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, “Metan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.