Olán

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Olán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 303K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 186K
  • NONorway1 in 391K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,099 people, 2010

Sources
217 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 186K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Olan in US United States, PR Puerto Rico.

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)

recorded in Romanian

subst., dar cu precadere < tc. oglan fiu". 1. - b. (16 A I 154) ; Oldn1 easca si -esti ss. ; -escul (Glos). 2. Old nelul m-te. 3. Oldnifa t. 4. Cf. Ulan boier (Rel) ; - Ilea, mold. (16 A I 284) ; cf. Ulan-Bator, oral In Mongolia.

Sources 3

  • Wiktionary
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Olán 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.

Where Olán is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1,0991 in 303K1.1KOlan217
PL Poland—651 in 589K35—1
FI Finland—301 in 186K30—4
ES Spain—251 in 2M25—6
NO Norway—141 in 391K14—2
SE Sweden—61 in 1.7M12—2
PR Puerto Rico#709———Olan14

1,099 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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Olán is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Thai given name27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Laos, United States, Indonesia

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written โอฬาร, Olarn, เอาฬาร, โอฬาริ, Olan

  • Finnish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Philippines

    Also written Olan, Õlãñ

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Olan

  • a separate surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Ethiopia

    Also written Olan

  • Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, Philippines, United States, Italy

    Also written Olan

  • Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Brazil, Mexico

    Also written Olan, Olän

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Olán 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 se, first-person singular present indicative of ollit

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

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 4 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Olán
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—25—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—6#51,861

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

In which country does Olán have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Olán, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled olan.
Where is Olán most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Olán is densest in Finland — about 1 in 186 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Olán?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,099 people named Olán in 2010, about 1 in 303 thousand residents.
How common is Olán compared with other names?
In Puerto Rico, Olán is the 709th most common surname of 8,205 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Olán” — the 709th most common surname in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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