Mahan (name)

Mahan is both a surname and a given name.

When used as given name in Persian ( ماهان māhān), it means "like the moon" or "moon-like", or even referring to something "as beautiful as the moon".

Notable people with the name include:

Surname

 * Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914), American officer, geostrategist, and naval historian
 * Armand Mahan (born 1983), Ivorian football player
 * Art Mahan (1913–2010), American baseball player
 * Asa Mahan (1800–1889), first president of Oberlin College
 * Dennis Hart Mahan (1802–1871), professor at the US Military Academy, father of Alfred
 * Eddie Mahan (1892–1975), American football player
 * Hunter Mahan (born 1981), American golfer
 * Larry Mahan (1943–2023), eight time rodeo world champion
 * Sean Mahan (born 1980), American football player
 * William Dennes Mahan (1824–1906), Presbyterian minister and author of The Archko Volume

Given name

 * Mahan Singh (born 1756/60, death 1790/92), Chief of the Sukerchakia Misl of the Sikh Confederacy
 * Mahan Mitra (born 1968), Indian mathematician
 * Mahan Esfahani (born 1984), Iranian-American harpsichordist