Ciocârlan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: crested lark (Galerida cristata)
Ciocârlan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- RORomania≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 652K
- ITItaly≈1 in 1M
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 23 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ciocarlan in RO Romania, ES Spain, IT Italy 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)
crested lark (Galerida cristata)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ciocârlan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Ciocarlan | 23 |
| IT Italy | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Ciocarlan | 4 |
| ES Spain | 34 | 1 in 1.5M | 34 | Ciocarlan | 4 |
| US United States | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 17M | listed | Ciocarlan | 6 |
| DK Denmark | 9 | 1 in 652K | 9 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 8M | — | Ciocarlan | 8 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ciocârlan 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 Romanian, CIOCÂRLÁN, ciocârlani, s. m. 1. Pasăre de culoare brună-cenușie, cu un moț în vârful capului (Galerida cristata). 2. Bărbătușul ciocârliei.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)
- Ion Ciocârlanb. 1874RORomanian prose writer
- Vasile Ciocârlanb. 1926botanist (1926-2013)
- Raluca Ciocârlanb. 1986RORomanian singer
- Savu CiocârlanRORomanian politician from Slătioara, Olt County
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)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
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 Ciocârlan mean, and where does it come from?
- crested lark (Galerida cristata) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Ciocârlan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 799 people named Ciocârlan in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ciocarlan.
- How common is the name Ciocârlan?
- In Spain, the national register counted 34 people named Ciocârlan, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cioc%C3%A2rlanThe 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, “Ciocârlan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.