Arjan
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Arjan is a given name, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. It appears chiefly in and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: 1. Arjanu, Bann! (Puc).
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.4K◐
- CACanada1 in 55K
- DEGermany1 in 116K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈17K ●
- Sources
- 137 ●
- 1 in 808 ◐
across 10 countries
20K records
Official registry-verified
Albania
Meaning & origin●
1. Arjanu, Bann! (Puc). 2. Arjona f. (Ard), 3. Cf. ung. Arsani capitan al lui Tokoly (Hurm XIII 12). 4. Arsanu, fam., olt. (Sd XXII).
Sources 1
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #276 | 12,277 | 14K rec. | 1 in 1.4K | 12K | Arjan | 137 |
| AL Albania | — | 3,806 | 0 rec. | 1 in 808 | 3.8K | — | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,506 | 160 rec. | — | 47 | Arjan | 40 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,050 | 943 rec. | — | 1 | Arjan | 77 |
| US United States | — | 940 | 2.8K rec. | 1 in 354K | 940 | Arjan | 111 |
| IN India | — | 919 | 313 rec. | — | 44 | Arjan | 48 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 734 | 528 rec. | — | 5 | Arjan | 59 |
| AU Australia | — | 515 | 500 rec. | — | 1 | Arjan | 59 |
| PH Philippines | — | 353 | 184 rec. | — | — | Arjan | 23 |
| NO Norway | — | 352 | 47 rec. | — | 304 | Arjan | 10 |
| AT Austria | — | 188 | 42 rec. | — | 40 | Arjan | 21 |
| SE Sweden | — | 123△ | 58 rec. | 1 in 83K | 123 | Arjan | 10 |
Roughly 12K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 1.4K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- 34K20%
- Hindi31K18%
- Dutch28K16%
- Western Frisian22K13%
- English22K12%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 34,381 | 20% | |
| Hindi | 31,049 | 18% |
| Dutch | 28,268 | 16% |
| Western Frisian | 21,931 | 13% |
| English | 21,679 | 12% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Arjan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, ) Arjen: männl. Vom., friesische und niederländische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In got, romanization of 𐌰𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmw-pro, to plough, plow
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1901 | 2 |
| 1914 | 1 |
| 1915 | 1 |
| 1919 | 2 |
| 1920 | 3 |
| 1921 | 5 |
| 1922 | 6 |
| 1923 | 3 |
| 1924 | 11 |
| 1925 | 8 |
| 1926 | 7 |
| 1927 | 12 |
| 1928 | 6 |
| 1929 | 19 |
| 1930 | 5 |
| 1931 | 16 |
| 1932 | 23 |
| 1933 | 17 |
| 1934 | 17 |
| 1935 | 15 |
| 1936 | 21 |
| 1937 | 21 |
| 1938 | 19 |
| 1939 | 25 |
| 1940 | 32 |
| 1941 | 24 |
| 1942 | 39 |
| 1943 | 37 |
| 1944 | 50 |
| 1945 | 36 |
| 1946 | 47 |
| 1947 | 56 |
| 1948 | 29 |
| 1949 | 62 |
| 1950 | 56 |
| 1951 | 60 |
| 1952 | 52 |
| 1953 | 45 |
| 1954 | 68 |
| 1955 | 49 |
| 1956 | 61 |
| 1957 | 85 |
| 1958 | 51 |
| 1959 | 89 |
| 1960 | 76 |
| 1961 | 85 |
| 1962 | 80 |
| 1963 | 70 |
| 1964 | 96 |
| 1965 | 85 |
| 1966 | 99 |
| 1967 | 86 |
| 1968 | 83 |
| 1969 | 89 |
| 1970 | 104 |
| 1971 | 71 |
| 1972 | 108 |
| 1973 | 96 |
| 1974 | 75 |
| 1975 | 86 |
| 1976 | 88 |
| 1977 | 77 |
| 1978 | 65 |
| 1979 | 79 |
| 1980 | 75 |
| 1981 | 114 |
| 1982 | 117 |
| 1983 | 127 |
| 1984 | 102 |
| 1985 | 111 |
| 1986 | 109 |
| 1987 | 148 |
| 1988 | 133 |
| 1989 | 139 |
| 1990 | 168 |
| 1991 | 171 |
| 1992 | 172 |
| 1993 | 174 |
| 1994 | 148 |
| 1995 | 117 |
| 1996 | 98 |
| 1997 | 55 |
| 1998 | 61 |
| 1999 | 11 |
| 2008 | 2 |
| 2010 | 5 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2 |
| 2014 | 11 |
| 2015 | 4 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 91 years between 1901–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Guru Arjanb. 1563INThe fifth Guru of Sikhism (1563-1606)
- Arjan Singhb. 1919INMarshal of the Indian Air Force
- Arjan Ederveenb. 1956NLDutch actor (born 1956)
- Arjan de Zeeuwb. 1970NLDutch footballer
- Arjan Bellajb. 1971ALAlbanian footballer (born 1971)
- Arjan Beqajb. 1975XKAlbanian footballer
- Arjan Bajwab. 1977INIndian actor
- Arjan Stroetingab. 1981NLDutch speed skater and racing cyclist
- Arjan Swinkelsb. 1984NLDutch footballer
- Arjan Malićb. 2005SIBosnian association football 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 44 sources across 23 countries.
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 413 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Arjan?
- We estimate roughly 17 thousand people bear Arjan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Arjan have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 12 thousand people bear Arjan in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled arjan.
- Where is Arjan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Arjan is densest in Albania — about 1 in 808 people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Arjan compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Arjan is the 276th most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
- Is Arjan a male or female name?
- Arjan 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.
- What does the name Arjan mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Arjanu, Bann! (Puc).
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Arjan” — the 276th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.