Arslán
surname · Latin script
Arslán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From arslan, an alternative form of aslan (“lion”).
- TRTürkiye1 in 157(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 6.7K
- NONorway1 in 11K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 182 (measured from records)
- 1 in 157 (inferred from the name graph)
521,149 people, 2025
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Arslan in TR Türkiye, US United States, AT Austria and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From arslan, an alternative form of aslan (“lion”).
Cited for this meaning 3
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Arslán counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | — | 521,149 | 1 in 157 | 521K | Arslan | 74 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 1,254 | 1 in 6.7K | 1.3K | Arslan | 24 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1,048 | 1 in 11K | 1.7K | Arslan | 27 |
| SE Sweden | — | 779 | 1 in 13K | 779 | — | 18 |
| US United States | — | 653 | 1 in 509K | 1K | Arslan | 182 |
| NO Norway | — | 498 | 1 in 11K | 498 | — | 14 |
| DK Denmark | — | 485 | 1 in 12K | 485 | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | #127 | — | — | 38 | Arslan | 59 |
521,149 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used surnames, 2025. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: TÜİK NIP — most used surnames; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Arslán mean, and where does it come from?
- From arslan, an alternative form of aslan (“lion”). Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Arslán have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 521 thousand people named Arslán, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arslan.
- Where is Arslán most common?
- Arslán is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 157 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Arslán?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 521,149 people named Arslán in 2025, about 1 in 157 residents.
- How common is Arslán compared with other names?
- In Austria, Arslán is the 127th most common surname of 127,275 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arsl%C3%A1nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Arslán” — the 127th most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.