Watsan
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Watsan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.3Kas Watson(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 42Kas Wasson
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 58Kas Wasson
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 Watsan 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 378 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
252,579 named Watson, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States, as Watson
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Wasson in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada.
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)
Watsan 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 | 252,579as Watson | 1 in 1.3K | 253K | Wasson | 378 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 58K | 157 | Wasson | 88 |
| CR Costa Rica | 936as Watson | 1 in 5.4K | 936 | — | — |
| CA Canada | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 42K | 9 | Wasson | 75 |
| FR France | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 88K | 91 | — | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 516as Watson | 1 in 1.5K | 516 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 252as Watson | 1 in 22K | 252 | — | 8 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 35as Watson | 1 in 2.9K | 35 | — | — |
252,579 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling watson. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)
Watsan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, water and sanitation
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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Watsan a male or female name?
- Watsan 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 Watsan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 253 thousand people named Watson, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Watsan most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Watsan itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is United States's: the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people named Watson.
- How common is the name Watsan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 252,579 people named Watson in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Watsan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/watsanThe 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, “Watsan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.