Sån
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sån is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish صان (san), a derivation from Proto-Turkic *sā- (“to count”). Related to say- (“to count”) and san- (“to consider”).
- SESweden1 in 39K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 76K
- SISlovenia1 in 124K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- 1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
4,389 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled San in DZ Algeria.
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)- Ottoman Turkishصانsan(measured from records)
- Proto-Turkic*sā-“to count”(measured from records)
From Ottoman Turkish صان (san), a derivation from Proto-Turkic *sā- (“to count”). Related to say- (“to count”) and san- (“to consider”).
Cited for this meaning 13
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sån 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.
4,389 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SURS — resident population given 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Sån is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, definite singular of så
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sje, he, she, it
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sån mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ottoman Turkish صان (san), a derivation from Proto-Turkic *sā- (“to count”). Related to say- (“to count”) and san- (“to consider”). Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 11 other sources.
- Is Sån a male or female name?
- Sån is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Sån have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Sån, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sån most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sån is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 39 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sån?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,389 people named Sån in 2020, about 1 in 76 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A5nThe 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, “Sån”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.