Balan
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: third-person plural present indicative of balar
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈbeɪɫən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Balan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 7K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 581K
- USUnited States1 in 90Kas Bailon
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Balan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 991 (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Palan in EC Ecuador.
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)
third-person plural present indicative of balar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Balan is read(measured from records)
Balan is one spelling over 6 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.
- English20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Balan in English.
- Spanish19%
third-person plural present indicative of balar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Balan in Hindi.
- Ukrainian7.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Balan in Ukrainian.
- French5.7%
variante de Baland, dérivé de l’ancien français baler « danser »; surnom d’un danseur ou baladin
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- Romanian5.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Balan in Romanian.
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)
Balan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 991 | — | Balan | 15 |
| EC Ecuador | 11,678as Bailon | 1 in 1.4K | 12K | Palan | 13 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Balan | 49 |
| PH Philippines | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Balan | 19 |
| US United States | 3,702as Bailon | 1 in 90K | 3.7K | Balan | 192 |
| IN India | 2,283 | 1 in 581K | 2.3K | Balan | 157 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Balan | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 606as Palán | 1 in 18K | 607 | — | 1 |
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; INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end). 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)
Balan 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 Kurdish, High place
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Russian, "spoil."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In se, first-person singular present indicative of ballat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ban, weal raised by a blow with a thin stick or lash
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)
- Hermann Ludwig von Balanb. 1812DEGerman diplomat and State Secretary in the Foreign Office of the German Empire (1812-1874)
- Pietro Balanb. 1840ITItalian priest and historian (1840-1893)
- Max von Balanb. 1849DEPrussian district president and politician (1849-1905)
- Aleksandar Teodorov-Balanb. 1859BGBulgarian linguist and historian (1859-1959)
- Mihai Balanb. 1960MDMoldovan diplomat
- Oleg Balanb. 1969MDMoldovan politician
- Vidya Balanb. 1979INIndian film actress
- Dan Balanb. 1979MDMoldovan singer
- Aparna Balanb. 1986INbadminton player
- Sergiu Balanb. 1987MDMoldovan cross-country skier
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 42 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5.6K | #127 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 2.3K | #2,838 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,377 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,218 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #23,480 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 9 | #84,662 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 9 | #18,614 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2021 | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Balan mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person plural present indicative of balar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Balan?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbeɪɫən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Balan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Balan in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled balan.
- How common is the name Balan?
- In India, the national register counted 2,283 people named Balan, about 1 in 581 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/balanThe 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, “Balan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.