Zoan
loc · Latin script
Meaning: forma reduzida de Zoane
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Zoan is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 750K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.7M
- USUnited States1 in 1.8Mas Soan
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zoan 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)
- Sources
- 39 (measured from records)
- 1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)
180 named Soan, 2020
Reference-verified
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Soan in MY Malaysia.
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)
forma reduzida de Zoane
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zoan 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 | 180as Soan | 1 in 1.8M | 118 | — | 2 |
| CR Costa Rica | 3 | 1 in 1.7M | 3 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2as Soan | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
| MY Malaysia | — | — | — | Soan | 13 |
180 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; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 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)
Zoan 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 English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Italian, Variante di Zanni
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Galician, third-person plural present indicative of zoar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, Feminine allocutive form of doa.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lmo, John
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)
Attested in 6 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 3 | #20,286 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zoan mean, and where does it come from?
- forma reduzida de Zoane Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- In which country does Zoan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 180 people named Soan, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Zoan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zoan is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zoan?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 3 people named Zoan, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zoanThe 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, “Zoan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.