Alaman
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Turkish: big, large, huge
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/alaman/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alaman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 68K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 81K
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- 1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
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)
big, large, huge
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Alaman is read(measured from records)
Alaman 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.
- Spanish39%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Alaman in Spanish.
- English36%
Lucas, Mexican historian &
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
politician
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Turkish8.2%
big, large, huge
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Alaman 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Alaman | 34 |
| ES Spain | 734 | 1 in 68K | 734 | Alaman | 64 |
| IN India | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Alaman | 4 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 228K | — | Alaman | 19 |
| US United States | 314 | 1 in 1.1M | 347 | Alaman | 126 |
| AR Argentina | 176 | 1 in 258K | 176 | Alaman | 24 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 214K | — | Alaman | 7 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
Alaman is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, epistemology
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bik, dangerous
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, ALAMÁNI s. m. pl. v. alemani. ¶ ALEMÁNI s. m. pl. Numele unor triburi germanice care au trăit (prin secolele III-VI) în regiunea Rinului. [Var.: alamáni s. m. pl.].
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)
- José Alfonso Nasarre AlamánESSpanish 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 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 734 | #5,835 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 734 | #5,828 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 347 | #62,349 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 314 | #63,524 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 255 | #71,372 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 176 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Alaman mean, and where does it come from?
- big, large, huge Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Alaman?
- A machine transcription gives /alaman/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Alaman have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Alaman in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alaman.
- Where is Alaman most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alaman is densest in Spain — about 1 in 68 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Alaman?
- In Spain, the national register counted 734 people named Alaman, about 1 in 68 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Alaman?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alamanThe 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, “Alaman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.