Given name & surname
Gan
“a wanderer”
Gan is used as a given name and a surname. One Chinese interpretation is “a wanderer.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Chinese interpretation is “a wanderer.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Chinese.
Gan’s family of names
In Filipino usage, Gan as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Yan. Gan has a related form in Gann. Gan has a related form in Yan.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Gan has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Chinese roots to each of them.
4 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Gan
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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