Zhan
Fewer than 80 people in Poland carry it, nearly all of them men, and no child got it last year. The name traces back to a Hebrew root meaning "God is gracious".
Zhan Pronunciation
Zhan is pronounced SKHAHN (/sxan/).
What Zhan means
Where Zhan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zhan reaches back to the Hebrew name Yohanan, which means "God is gracious." That is the root Polish carries in Jan, and here it gives the same sense: bóg jest łaskawy. The spelling Zhan travels a different road. It reads as Chinese, a romanization familiar from Mandarin, and in a Polish register it sits beside the older Hebrew meaning rather than replacing it.
The Chinese association is what most people notice first. A teacher reading a class register in Kraków might pause at Zhan, then place it. The name holds a documented Hebrew origin under a form that looks eastern, and both readings stay true at once.
No diminutive attaches to Zhan in Polish, and no cross-gender variant. It stands as it is written. What stays constant is the meaning inherited from Yohanan: God is gracious.
How many people are named Zhan
1 in 284616 men in Poland is named Zhan. 79 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4017 among male names.