Nguan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nguan is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 2.8Kas สงวน(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 1.1Mas Sanguan
- USUnited States1 in 1.2Mas Sangwon
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 Nguan 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 named สงวน, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Thailand, est., as สงวน
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)13 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sanguan in US United States, ID Indonesia, SG Singapore and สงวน in TH Thailand.
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nguan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #463 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | register #83,589 | สงวน | 72 |
| US United States | — | 281as Sangwon | 1 in 1.2M | 245 | Sanguan | 25 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Sanguan | 8 |
| PL Poland | — | 14as Sangwon | 1 in 2.7M | 14 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 9as Sanguan | 1 in 1.1M | 10 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Sanguan | 3 |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 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 Nguan a male or female name?
- Nguan 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 Nguan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named สงวน in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Nguan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 281 people named Sangwon in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Nguan compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Nguan is the 463rd most common given name of 488,147 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/nguanThe 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, “Nguan” — the 463rd most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.