Zagan
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Zagan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 2.5M
- PLPoland1 in 3.5M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 61K (inferred from the name graph)
≈320 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)subst. (vultur). I. - b. ard., 1722 (Pas) ; (16 B III 319 ; Mar); Zdgdnescu. 2. Cf. cu g > h (?) sau de alts origine : Zdhan mot (0 Dens T). Zfigorcea, Zagrici v. Z a g u r Zahan v. Z a g a n 2. Ziiie/ani, -ul v. Zaic 1. Zalariu v. Zale 4. Zam, -WI v. Z a m a 4. Zambre§ti v. Zimbru I. Ziimona v. Zaman 2. Zao§ v. Zale 3. Zarn/ii, -e§ti v. Zirn A 1. Ziirul v. Z e r 2. Zfivideni v. Z avid 2. 3, 4.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Where the surname Zagan is found
(measured from records)Zagan 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present). 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)Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Zagan?
- Mondonomo estimates about 315 people named Zagan in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zagan. After it come Venezuela, Spain, United States and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Zagan?
- In Spain, the national register counted 20 people named Zagan, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zaganThe 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, “Zagan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.