Bolen
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bolen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Lancs; Renfrews; NR. see Bullen . Further information: This name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA.
- USUnited States1 in 36K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 47K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 65K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 379 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Lancs; Renfrews; NR. see Bullen . Further information: This name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bolen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Bolen | 3 |
| US United States | 9,323 | 1 in 36K | 9.3K | Bolen | 379 |
| EG Egypt | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Bolen | 5 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Bolen | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Bolen | 43 |
| CA Canada | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Bolen | 94 |
| IE Ireland | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Bolen | 2 |
| DK Denmark | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Bolen | 4 |
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. 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)
Bolen is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, third-person plural present indicative of bulir
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)
- Václav Bolenb. 1887CZCzechoslovak politician
- Francis Bolenb. 1912BEBelgian journalist and film critic (1908-1981)
- David Bolenb. 1923USAmerican sprinter and diplomat
- Bob Bolenb. 1926USAmerican businessman and politician
- Jean Shinoda Bolenb. 1936USAmerican psychiatrist
- Cheryl Bolenb. 1946USauthor
- Dennis E. Bolenb. 1953CACanadian novelist
- Skip Bolenb. 1960USAmerican photographer
- Donald Bolenb. 1961CACanadian Catholic prelate
- Brock Bolenb. 1985USAmerican football player
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 14 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.3K | #3,793 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.9K | #3,656 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.8K | #3,904 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Bolen mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Lancs; Renfrews; NR. see Bullen . Further information: This name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- In which country does Bolen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Bolen in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bolen.
- How common is the name Bolen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,323 people named Bolen in 2010, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bolenThe 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, “Bolen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.