Balán
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 'bather'; may also be of Romanian origin, 'fair'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Balán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 30K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 218K
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 566K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- 1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
2,283 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Balan in IN India, US United States, ES Spain and 1 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)'bather'; may also be of Romanian origin, 'fair'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Russian Surnames
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Balán 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 2,283 | 1 in 581K | 2.3K | Balan | 24 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,247 | 1 in 94K | 2.2K | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,649 | 1 in 30K | 1.6K | Balan | 57 |
| US United States | — | 1,527 | 1 in 218K | 2K | Balan | 110 |
| PL Poland | — | 833 | 1 in 46K | 503 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 177 | 1 in 33K | 177 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 149 | 1 in 56K | 149 | — | 4 |
| NO Norway | — | 126 | 1 in 43K | 126 | — | 1 |
| GT Guatemala | #433 | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 566K | — | Balan | 18 |
2,283 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Balán is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, < balan 'blond'; possibly also Jewish surname
as a nameRussian Surnames
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Stanislav Balánb. 1989CZCzech ice hockey player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Balán mean, and where does it come from?
- 'bather'; may also be of Romanian origin, 'fair' Recorded by Russian Surnames.
- In which country does Balán have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Balán, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled balan.
- Where is Balán most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Balán is densest in Spain — about 1 in 30 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Balán?
- In India, the national register counted 2,283 people named Balán, about 1 in 581 thousand residents.
- How common is Balán compared with other names?
- In Guatemala, Balán is the 433rd most common surname of 54,341 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bal%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, “Balán” — the 433rd most common surname in Guatemala. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.