Cahalane
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Ó Cathaláin ‘descendant of Cathalán’, a diminutive of the personal name Cathal; see Cahill
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kæhəɫeɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cahalane is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)from Ó Cathaláin ‘descendant of Cathalán’, a diminutive of the personal name Cathal; see Cahill .
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cahalane counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 364 | — |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | — |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Niall Cahalaneb. 1963IEIrish hurler and Gaelic footballer
- Damien Cahalaneb. 1992IEIrish hurler and Gaelic footballer
- Michael Cahalaneb. 1995IEprofessional hurler
- Sarah Cahalaneresearcher
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 364 | #56,195 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 336 | #64,041 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 301 | #62,236 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #315,001 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Cahalane mean, and where does it come from?
- from Ó Cathaláin ‘descendant of Cathalán’, a diminutive of the personal name Cathal; see Cahill . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Cahalane?
- A machine transcription gives /kæhəɫeɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Cahalane have the most bearers?
- Cahalane is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Cahalane?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cahalaneThe 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, “Cahalane”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.