Salan
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: third-person plural present indicative of salar
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/salan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Salan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 26K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 71K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 74K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
third-person plural present indicative of salar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Salan is read(measured from records)
Salan is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Turkish42%
1. Otlak, mera. 2. Dinlendirilen tarla, toprak.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- English22%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Salan in English.
- Spanish18%
third-person plural present indicative of salar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Salan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Salan | 38 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Salan | 3 |
| ES Spain | 576 | 1 in 87K | 576 | — | 1 |
| SY Syria | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Salan | 3 |
| US United States | 197 | 1 in 1.7M | 237 | Salan | 13 |
| FI Finland | 41 | 1 in 136K | 41 | — | — |
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; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Salan is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, 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 sala
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, genitive singular of sala
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In biq, passage through the reef
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In tgc, path, road
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Raoul Salanb. 1899FRFrench general (1899–1984)
- Georges Salanb. 1901FRFrench physician, resistance fighter and writer
- Núria Salán Ballesterosb. 1963ESresearcher
- Jorge Salánb. 1982ESSpanish musician
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 26 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 576 | #7,127 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 576 | #7,125 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 237 | #85,054 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 205 | #84,968 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 197 | #93,125 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 41 | #27,286 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Salan mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person plural present indicative of salar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Salan?
- A machine transcription gives /salan/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Salan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Salan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salan.
- How common is the name Salan?
- In Spain, the national register counted 576 people named Salan, about 1 in 87 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/salanThe 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, “Salan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.