Sherwan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of Shirvan (“former Caucasus region”)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃɝwɑn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sherwan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 73K(measured from records)
- SYSyria≈1 in 92K
- NONorway≈1 in 144K
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.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- 1 in 73K (inferred from the name graph)
≈210 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Alternative form of Shirvan (“former Caucasus region”).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sherwan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Sherwan | 14 |
| DE Germany | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 410K | — | Sherwan | 32 |
| SE Sweden | 140 | 1 in 73K | 140 | Sherwan | 12 |
| IQ Iraq | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 384K | — | Sherwan | 35 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 9 | Sherwan | 35 |
| NO Norway | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 144K | 88 | Sherwan | 7 |
| DK Denmark | 35 | 1 in 168K | 35 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 345K | 2 | Sherwan | 7 |
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: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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).
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)
Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 9 | #154,387 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #61,761 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 8 | #44,282 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sherwan mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of Shirvan (“former Caucasus region”). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sherwan?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɝwɑn/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Sherwan a male or female name?
- Sherwan 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 Sherwan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 211 people named Sherwan in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sherwan.
- Where is Sherwan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sherwan is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 73 thousand people — even though Syria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sherwan?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 140 people named Sherwan, about 1 in 73 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sherwan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sherwanThe 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, “Sherwan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.