Forlán
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/foɾlan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Forlán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variante di Furlani.
- UYUruguay1 in 17K(measured from records)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 140K
- ARArgentina1 in 541K
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.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈200 people, est.
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 Forlan in AR Argentina, UY Uruguay, BR Brazil and 3 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)
Variante di Furlani
Sources 2
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Forlán 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.
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pablo Forlánb. 1945UYUruguayan footballer
- Diego Forlánb. 1979UYUruguayan association football player and manager (born 1979)
- Cristopher Fiermarinb. 1998UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan footballer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Forlán mean, and where does it come from?
- Variante di Furlani Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Forlán?
- A machine transcription gives /foɾlan/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Forlán have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 199 people named Forlán in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled forlan.
- Where is Forlán most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Forlán is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though Cameroon holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Forlán?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 196 people named Forlán, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Forlán?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/forl%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, “Forlán”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.