Ioan

given name · Hungarian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ioan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: forma coloquial regional de Gioan, de Giovanni.

rarermore common
  • CUCuba1 in 12◐
  • GTGuatemala1 in 16
  • CZCzechia1 in 18

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈11M ●

across 12 countries

#3 ●

of 16M given names

14 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
659 ●

100M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 18 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

JohnLatin · English●47M records
ΙωαννηςGreek · Greek●989K records
יונהHebrew · Hebrew●95K records
ЯнисCyrillic · Russian●26K records
요한Hangul · Korean●18K records
ᲯონიGeorgian · Georgian●6.8K records
জীবনBengali · Bangla●3.8K records
ዮሐንስEthiopic · Amharic●831 records
โยฮันเนสThai · Thai●161 records
ଜୀବନOdia · Odia●15 records
ՅանArmenian · Armenian●8 records
JoࣩhnArabic · English●1 records
ജവാൻMalayalam · Malayalam●0 records
ජීවනSinhala · Sinhala●0 records

13 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Juan in AR Argentina, ES Spain, MX Mexico and 6 more, John in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 5 more, Jan in PL Poland, CZ Czechia, DK Denmark and 1 more and Sebastian in DE Germany, EC Ecuador.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Italian

forma coloquial regional de Gioan, de Giovanni.

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ioan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#212,961,3007.5M rec.—5.7KJuan239
MX Mexico#35,288,3114.2M rec.—4.7KJuan302
GB United Kingdom#14,533,2514M rec.—1.1KJohn396
BR Brazil#33,430,6084.4M rec.1 in 623.4MJoao248
PE Peru#43,194,6532.3M rec.—555KJuan176
US United States#23,118,62055M rec.1 in 1073.1MJohn659
VE Venezuela#82,400,453870K rec.—21KJuan160
GT Guatemala#32,227,734180K rec.—3.1KJuan142
PH Philippines#32,098,1301.4M rec.—listedJohn240
AU Australia#11,965,7301.7M rec.—570John410
CO Colombia#21,937,062665K rec.—1.2KJuan277
FR France#11,910,4004.1M rec.1 in 361.9MJean474

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hungarian896K60%
  • English461K31%
  • Romanian74K5%
  • Spanish36K2%
  • French12K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hungarian896,11160%
English461,16831%
Romanian73,7345%
Spanish36,4842%
French11,9301%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ioan is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Romanian given name89K records spelled Ioan9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, Spain, United Kingdom

    Languages: Romanian, Italian

    Also written John, Ïoän, Íoan, Jöhn, Jóhn

  • Spanish given name40K records spelled Ioan6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Romania, United States, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Iöan, Ioán, Ioãn

  • a separate given name1.6K records spelled Ioan4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Romania, United Kingdom, Netherlands

    Also written Ìoan, Ĭoan, Iōan

  • Finnish given name841 records spelled Ioan17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Hungary, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written John, Johann, Jõhñ, Jóhann, Jõhn

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Ioan 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 English, Romanian form of John; God is gracious

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In Russian, var of Ioann.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In Welsh, a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English 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.

Over time●

010020030040020002005201020152020

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Ioan in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
1999126
2000130
2001129
2002129
2003130
2004131
2005129
2006127
2007174
2008211
2009226
2010240
2011244
2012246
2013256
2014264
2015276
2016284
2017301
2018308
2019319
2020324

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000Ion Ivanovici, b. 1845Ioan Slavici, b. 1848Ioan Culcer, b. 1853Ioan James, b. 1928Ioan Fiscuteanu, b. 1937Ioan Petru Culianu, b. 1950Ioan Andone, b. 1960Ioan Lupescu, b. 1968Ioan Sabău, b. 1968Ioan Gruffudd, b. 1973

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 66 sources across 36 countries.

Official registers attesting Ioan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
RO RomaniaDEPABD — name-day population snapshot2023448K—
RO RomaniaDEPABD — resident population names2023448K—
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—5.4K#382
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—5.1K#867
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.9K#7,810
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—701#398
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—595#2,461
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—546#2,371
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020324—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—323#2,615
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—284#12,623
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—284#12,577

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 192 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ioan?
We estimate roughly 11 million people bear Ioan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Ioan have the most bearers?
Ioan is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled juan.
How common is Ioan compared with other names?
In Argentina, Ioan is the 2nd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Ioan a male or female name?
Ioan 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 Ioan mean?
Recorded meaning: forma coloquial regional de Gioan, de Giovanni.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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.

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, “Ioan” — the 2nd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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