Salán

surname · Latin script

Salán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 87K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 136K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.7M

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.

Spain (measured from records)

576 people

Sources
24 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 87K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Salan in ES Spain, US United States, BR Brazil.

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 Turkish

1. Otlak, mera. 2. Dinlendirilen tarla, toprak.

Sources 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Salán 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 Salán is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain5761 in 87K576Salan10
US United States1971 in 1.7M237Salan9
IN India1421 in 9.3M142—1
BR Brazil971 in 2.2M97Salan24
FI Finland411 in 136K41——
PL Poland171 in 2.3M10——

576 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)

Salán is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Salan, Šalan

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Salan, Şalan

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United Kingdom, Pakistan, Malaysia

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Salan, Şalan

  • Japanese name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Salan, Şalan

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Salan

  • Ukrainian surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Türkiye, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Polish

    Also written Салань, Салан, Salan, Şalan

  • Turkish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, United States, Philippines

    Also written Salan, Şalan

5 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Salán under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Salán have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 576 people named Salán, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salan.
Where is Salán most common?
Salán is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 87 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Salán?
In Spain, the national register counted 576 people named Salán, about 1 in 87 thousand residents.

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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, “Salán”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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