Gyan Surname

16,764th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 33,128 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Ghana
Highest density in:
Ghana

Gyan Surname User-submission:

This surname is most common among the Fante tribe of Ghana. In the local language, it means 'worthless' or 'not important'.

Some locals associate it with a person who can mobilize crowds for an exercise. For example, a leader of an army.

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Gyan Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ghana29,3711:920145
India2,3691:323,79317,944
Israel3201:26,7433,901
United States1971:1,839,893120,150
Nigeria1711:1,035,92343,476
England1361:409,69228,019
Trinidad and Tobago1321:10,3331,422
Pakistan621:2,881,35323,780
Spain381:1,230,31741,658
Canada371:995,82774,831
South Africa341:1,593,46280,086
France321:2,075,710171,237
Saint Lucia271:6,622814
Iraq211:1,667,69816,789
Russia181:8,006,836292,169
Germany161:5,031,591189,895
Armenia161:183,1365,171
Papua New Guinea121:679,47678,554
Sweden111:895,16066,831
Indonesia111:12,022,654410,938
Liberia91:489,83723,279
Egypt91:10,215,08448,153
Australia61:4,499,284146,780
Qatar61:393,00055,922
Malaysia51:5,898,845196,803
Italy41:15,289,172132,955
United Arab Emirates41:2,290,56860,372
Kenya41:11,544,97562,419
Togo41:1,811,9428,122
DR Congo41:18,469,892182,906
Iceland31:126,6975,403
Thailand31:23,546,115908,588
Taiwan31:7,814,91541,694
China31:455,773,85521,925
Iran21:38,391,262236,033
Afghanistan21:16,076,59243,178
Tanzania21:26,470,806111,653
Netherlands21:8,443,588136,641
Norway21:2,571,14395,402
Myanmar11:51,937,9852,166
Hungary11:9,816,27773,288
Wales11:3,094,53244,023
Greece11:11,079,790145,225
Ivory Coast11:23,071,23276,679
Tunisia11:610,62630,336
Austria11:8,515,435118,036
Kuwait11:3,800,69427,187
Kyrgyzstan11:5,972,65499,197
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Belarus11:9,501,059159,228
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Sierra Leone11:7,089,6311,533
Saudi Arabia11:30,855,81763,028
Nepal11:28,480,95622,413
Romania11:20,077,87089,414
New Zealand11:4,528,32355,372
Georgia11:3,745,54547,852
Finland11:5,496,70284,025
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PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland11:4,429,86640,727
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England11:24,375,369195,128
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States161:3,138,668142,671

Gyan (189,103) may also be a first name.

Gyan Surname Meaning

User-submitted Reference

This surname is most common among the Fante tribe of Ghana. In the local language, it means 'worthless' or 'not important'.

Some locals associate it with a person who can mobilize crowds for an exercise. For example, a leader of an army.

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Gyan Demographics

Average Gyan Salary in
United States

$39,128 USD

Per year
Rank:
776,341 of 1,180,305
Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:
4.22082E-5
Rank: 150,150 of 1,181,369
Percentage of national average salary:
90.68%
Sample size: 92 (2014)

Average Salary in
United States

$43,149 USD

Per year
Per month:
$3,596 USD
Per week:
$799 USD
Per day:
$118 USD

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Gyan Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Gyan Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Gyan (Bengali: জ্ঞান, Hindi: ज्ञान, Marathi: ग्यान, Oriya: ଜ୍ଞାନ, Russian: Гян, Tibetan: དགེན་) occurs more in Ghana more than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Gyan? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 16,764th most frequently occurring surname worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 219,981 people. The last name Gyan occurs predominantly in Africa, where 89 percent of Gyan live; 89 percent live in West Africa and 89 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Gyan is also the 5,548th most frequently occurring given name at a global level. It is borne by 189,103 people.

The last name Gyan is most widely held in Ghana, where it is held by 29,371 people, or 1 in 920. Besides Ghana this last name occurs in 58 countries. It is also common in India, where 7 percent reside and Israel, where 1 percent reside.

Gyan Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Gyan has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the surname expanded 1,231 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it expanded 13,600 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Gyan Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those carrying the last name is primarily Catholic (100%) in Ireland and Christian (100%) in Kenya.

In The United States those holding the Gyan last name are 10.66% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 63.89% registered to vote for the party.

The amount Gyan earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 80.82% more than the national average, earning R 429,708 per year; in United States they earn 9.32% less than the national average, earning $39,128 USD per year and in Canada they earn 27.66% less than the national average, earning $35,939 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Gyany8924/
Gyain8920/
Gyann8918/
Gyaan893/
Dgyan891/
Dyan7513,826/
Gyon7532/
Gyanowa731/
Dhyan67896/
Dyane67404/
Dyhan6767/
Dyang6732/
Gyein6727/
Dyand6725/
D'yan6712/
Dyant6712/
Dyann6710/
Dyanh675/
Dgian672/
Hdyan672/
Gyion671/
Gyuon671/
Gyoin670/
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Gyan Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Gyan in the Hindi language
ज्ञानjnana96.89
ग्यानgyana1.66
जानjana0.73
जनjana0.29
ज्ञनjnana0.04
़ज्ञानjnana0.03
़़ज्ञानjnana0.01
ज्ानjana0.01
ज्ञानोjnano0
़़़़ज्ञनjnana0
ज्ाानjaana0
ज्ञाणjnana0
़़़़़़़़ज्ञानjnana0
़़ग्यानgyana0
ग्यानाgyana0
ज्ञान्jnan0
़़़़ज्ञानjnana0
ज्ञानाjnana0
्ज्ञानjnana0
ग्यनgyana0
़़़ज्ञानjnana0
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Gyan in the Marathi language
ग्यानgyana80.2
यानyana17.82
गणgana0.2
यनyana0.2
ग्यानू़gyanu0.2
ग्यानीgyani0.2
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Gyan in the Bengali language
জ্ঞানjnana76.92
গ্যানgyana15.38
গিয়ানgiyana7.69
Gyan in the Oriya language
ଜ୍ଞାନjnana52.56
ଗଯ୍ାନgayana21.79
ଗଯ୍ାନରgayanara14.74
େଜନାejana3.21
ାନana2.56
ଗାଣgana0.64
ରାଣାrana0.64
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Gyan in the Tibetan language
དགེན་gen35.19
གེན་gen30.56
གེ་ཡཱན་géyen12.04
གོན་gön4.63
གེ་ཡན་géyen3.7
གན་gen3.7
གེའེན་gé'en1.85
མགོན་gön0.93
གོ་ཡཱན་goyen0.93
དགོན་gön0.93
གེ་འེནgéen0.93
རྒྱེན་gyen0.93
དགེ་ཡན་géyen0.93
གེ་ཡེན་géyen0.93
རྒྱན་gyen0.93
༢གན་gen0.93
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Gyan in the Russian language
Гянgan-

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