Bellán
surname · Latin script
Bellán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: v. faire la guerre.
- UYUruguay1 in 188K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 343K
- USUnited States1 in 846K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- 1 in 188K (inferred from the name graph)
618 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bellan in BR Brazil, 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)v. faire la guerre
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bellán 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.
618 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); MVČR — living population register 2017; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 Bellán mean, and where does it come from?
- v. faire la guerre Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos and 1 other source.
- In which country does Bellán have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 618 people named Bellán, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bellan.
- Where is Bellán most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bellán is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 188 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bellán?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 618 people named Bellán, about 1 in 343 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bell%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, “Bellán”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.