Ziyan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: (ziyaan) (G2:): ornament, decoration
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/zijən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ziyan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 463K(measured from records)
- CNChina≈1 in 30K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 140K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈46,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
(ziyaan) (G2:): ornament, decoration. See .Zinat a&.:)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ziyan 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 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Ziyan | 69 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 156K | listed | Ziyan | 7 |
| US United States | 718 | 1 in 463K | 422 | Ziyan | 116 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Ziyan | 15 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 179K | — | Ziyan | 12 |
| SG Singapore | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 186K | — | Ziyan | 16 |
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. 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)
Ziyan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, (ziyaan) (js:)): ornament, decoration. See Zinat i
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, ornament, decoration
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Decoration,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
In Turkish, Damage, loss, waste.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In crh, damage, harm
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Wu Ziyanb. 2012CNbadminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
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 33 sources across 23 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ziyan?
- A machine transcription gives /zijən/ (IPA) for Chinese.
- What does the name Ziyan mean?
- Recorded meaning: (ziyaan) (G2:): ornament, decoration.
- Is Ziyan a male or female name?
- Ziyan 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 Ziyan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Ziyan in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ziyan.
- How common is the name Ziyan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 718 people named Ziyan in 2020, about 1 in 463 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ziyanThe 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, “Ziyan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.