Belan
loc · Latin script
Meaning: var. regional de Bellan
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɛɫən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Belan is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 15K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 121K
- CZCzechia1 in 132K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 139 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
1,058 people
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
var. regional de Bellan
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Belan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 1,058 | 1 in 200K | 1.1K | — | 1 |
| IN India | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | 1 | — | 7 |
| FR France | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 121K | 70 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 359 | 1 in 927K | 359 | — | 139 |
| HR Croatia | 289 | 1 in 15K | 289 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 81 | 1 in 132K | 82 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 32 | 1 in 174K | 32 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 140K | 24 | — | — |
1,058 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)
Belan is also recorded in 2 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 bela
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zpq, corn smut
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)
- Albert Belanb. 1930USAmerican politician (1930–2011)
- Vasily Belanb. 1932RURussian painter (1932-2002)
- Ján Belanb. 1938SKSlovak physician
- Neno Belanb. 1960HRCroatian rock musician
- Tatyana Belanb. 1982BYOlympic rhythmic gymnast
- Alexey Belanb. 1987RULatvian-Russian hacker (born 1987)
- Théo Belanb. 1992FRFrench rugby union player (1992-)
- Ingrid Belanresearcher
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 35 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.1K | #8,814 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 359 | #56,836 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 357 | #60,850 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 339 | #56,392 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 289 | #2,794 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 255 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 95 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 90 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 88 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 87 | — |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 82 | #8,443 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 81 | #20,093 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Belan mean, and where does it come from?
- var. regional de Bellan Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Belan?
- A machine transcription gives /bɛɫən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Belan have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Belan, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Belan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Belan is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Belan?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,058 people named Belan, about 1 in 200 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Belan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/belanThe 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, “Belan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.