Zhian
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: SCB, 2020
/sjan/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Zhian is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CNChina≈1 in 35Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 340K
- DKDenmark1 in 838K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈40,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zhi-An in TW Taiwan.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zhian 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Zhian | 34 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 269K | — | Zhi-An | 4 |
| PH Philippines | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Zhian | 10 |
| US United States | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 7.4M | 5 | Zhian | 45 |
| SE Sweden | 30 | 1 in 340K | 30 | — | 3 |
| PA Panama | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 271K | — | Zhian | 3 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 476K | — | Zhian | 4 |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Zhian?
- In Spanish /sjan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Zhian a male or female name?
- Zhian 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Zhian?
- Mondonomo estimates about 40 thousand people named Zhian in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zhian. After it come Taiwan, Philippines, United States and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Zhian?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 30 people named Zhian, about 1 in 340 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Zhian?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zhianThe 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, “Zhian”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.