Ngan

Spellings & scripts●

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●

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Ngan is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name53K records spelled Ngan25 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom, Singapore

  Also written Ngân, Ngâñ, Ñ̷̘g̴͈͋â̸̜͋n̶̟͝, Ngän, Ngạn

• English given name42K records spelled Ngan23 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Australia, Malaysia, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

  Also written Ngân, N-Gan, Ngạn, Ngàn, Ngán

• a separate given name6.7K records spelled Ngan5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Hong Kong

  Also written Ngân, Ngần, Ngàn, Ngạn

• Spanish given name4.8K records spelled Ngan14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, El Salvador, Brazil, Chile

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Ngân, Ngắn, Ngấn, Ngàn, Ngán

• French given name2.5K records spelled Ngan7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Canada

  Also written Ngân, N'Gan, Ngăn, Ngàn, Ngạn

• Swahili given name1.3K records spelled Ngan4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom, Hong Kong

  Also written Ngân, Ngắn

• Finnish given name780 records spelled Ngan7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, United States

  Also written Ngân, Ngắn, Ngạn, Ngẩn

• Japanese given name763 records spelled Ngan8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Japan, United States, Hong Kong

  Also written Ngạn, Ngắn, Ngần, Ngàn, Ngẩn

53 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●

Ngan 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.

• variant of Yan 3.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In Malay, alternative form of dengan

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In zom, request

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In sba, tooth

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In osn, only

  as a word·kaikki.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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 27 years between 1982–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngânb. 1954VNChairwoman of the National Assembly of Vietnam
• Hà Thị Kim Ngânb. 1975VNbadminton player
• Thúy Ngânb. 1991VNVietnamese actress, model and television presenter (born 1991)
• Đặng Kim Ngânb. 1991VNbadminton player
• Khả Ngânb. 1997VNVietnamese actress

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 103 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ngan?

We estimate roughly 4.2 thousand people bear Ngan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Ngan have the most bearers?

Ngan is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled ngan.

How common is Ngan compared with other names?

In Vietnam, Ngan is the 50th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.

Is Ngan a male or female name?

Ngan is a female 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 Ngan mean?

Recorded meaning: Muscovy duck