Sablan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Chamorro
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈsæbɫən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sablan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 195K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.5M
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 195K (inferred from the name graph)
1,708 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Саблан in RU Russia, UA Ukraine.
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)
A surname from Chamorro.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sablan 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 | 1,708 | 1 in 195K | 2K | Sablan | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 7 | 1 in 2.5M | 7 | — | 1 |
| RU Russia | — | — | — | Саблан | 2 |
| UA Ukraine | — | — | — | Саблан | 2 |
1,708 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 — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Sablan 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 Esperanto, accusative singular of sabla
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)
- Rudy Sablanb. 1931USGuamanian politician
- Jesus Sablanb. 1952USNorthern Mariana Islands politician
- Gregorio Sablanb. 1955USNorthern Mariana Islander politician
- Fred Sablanb. 1970USAmerican musician
- Tina Sablanb. 1981USNorthern Mariana Islands politician
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 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,460 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,743 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,831 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 7 | #71,087 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Sablan mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Chamorro. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sablan?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsæbɫən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sablan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Sablan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sablan.
- Where is Sablan most common?
- Sablan is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 195 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sablan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,708 people named Sablan in 2010, about 1 in 195 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sablanThe 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, “Sablan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.