Given name & surname
Gyan
“having knowledge or wisdom”
Gyan is used as a given name and a surname. One Hindi interpretation is “having knowledge or wisdom.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hindi interpretation is “having knowledge or wisdom.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hindi.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1999. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gyan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 212
- 212 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2011
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #7,859 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −9%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,859 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 15 in 2011. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 557 as a first name in 2020; 282 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gyan’s family of names
Gyan has a related form in Gian. Gyan has a related form in Gyandev.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Gyan
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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