Bolañ
surname · Latin script
Bolañ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Lancs. from Ó Beólláin ‘descendant of Beóllán’, an Old Irish personal name of uncertain origin.
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 18K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 155K
- ARArgentina1 in 1.1M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
2,149 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bolan in US United States, AR Argentina, BR Brazil 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)Main GB Location (1881): Lancs. from Ó Beólláin ‘descendant of Beóllán’, an Old Irish personal name of uncertain origin.
Cited for this meaning 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bolañ is found
(measured from records)Bolañ 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,149 | 1 in 155K | 2.1K | Bolan | 52 |
| BR Brazil | 74 | 1 in 2.9M | 74 | Bolan | 33 |
| AR Argentina | 43 | 1 in 1.1M | 43 | Bolan | 29 |
| IN India | 14 | 1 in 95M | 14 | — | 1 |
| CO Colombia | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 6.8M | — | Bolan | 11 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 3 | 1 in 18K | 3 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 2 | 1 in 5.4M | 2 | — | — |
2,149 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 Bolañ mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Lancs. from Ó Beólláin ‘descendant of Beóllán’, an Old Irish personal name of uncertain origin. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc and 2 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bolañ?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Bolañ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bolan. After it come Brazil, Argentina, India and Colombia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bolañ most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bolañ is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bolañ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,149 people named Bolañ in 2010, about 1 in 155 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bola%C3%B1The 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, “Bolañ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.