Aland
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Aland is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India. Recorded meaning: from atte lande ‘dweller at the glade or pasture’; first attested Gerard Attelaunde 1281 IpmGl.
- INIndia
- DEGermany
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 145 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from atte lande ‘dweller at the glade or pasture’; first attested Gerard Attelaunde 1281 IpmGl.
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aland counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Aland is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Gerard Attelaunde 1281 IpmGl; Robert de Allandes 1335 FrY; Thomas Aland’ 1379 PTY; Thomas Alonde 1545 SRW. For atte lande ‘dweller at the glade or pasture’, OFr laund. Sometimes, perhaps, ‘dweller at the old cultivated land(s)’, OE eald, land.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In German, 'burbot' or plant Inula
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Kurdish, first/second/third-person singular/plural preterite of alandin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, On dry land, as opposed to in the water.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmw-pro, elecampane
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)
- Georg Alandb. 1630DEGerman jurist (1630-1694)
- John Fortescue Aland, 1st Baron Fortescue of Credanb. 1670GBEnglish lawyer, judge, politician, and writer on English legal and constitutional history
- Robert Alandb. 1836GBAustralian politician (1836-1904)
- Erika Aland-Vernikb. 1913EEEstonian writer (1913-2001)
- Kurt Alandb. 1915DEGerman theologian and biblical scholar (1915–1994)
- Barbara Alandb. 1937DEGerman theologian and Professor of New Testament Research and Church History (1937–2024)
- Sebastian Alandb. 1983DEresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-5258-0006
- Richard Alandb. 1994EEEstonian association football player (born 1994)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 311 | #68,212 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 266 | #68,973 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 262 | #73,911 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 13 | #33,486 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 10 | #1,894 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 9 | #131,542 |
| 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
- 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 Aland mean, and where does it come from?
- from atte lande ‘dweller at the glade or pasture’; first attested Gerard Attelaunde 1281 IpmGl. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Aland have the most bearers?
- Aland is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled aland.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alandThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Aland”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.