Chailan

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

/tʃailan/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated

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Chailan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.

  • FRFrance≈1 in 190K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
  • ARArgentina1 in 3.8M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈370 people, est.

Record sources
128 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 186K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where the surname Chailan is found

(measured from records)

Chailan 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.

Where Chailan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈370 est.≈1 in 186K34Chailan128
IN India≈20 est.≈1 in 72M1——
AR Argentina121 in 3.8M12——
CH Switzerland31 in 2.8M3——
BR Brazil——20——

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Chailan is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Chile, Argentina, Spain

    Also written Chailán

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Chailán

  • Thai surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand

    Also written ไชยหลาน, ไชลาน

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cha̱ilāṅ

12 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
18001850190019502000Fortuné Chailan, b. 1801Alfred Chailan, b. 1834Jean-Luc Chailan, b. 1954

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)
FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Chailan, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Chailan?
In Spanish /tʃailan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Chailan?
Mondonomo estimates about 368 people named Chailan in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chailan. After it come India, Argentina and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Chailan?
In Argentina, the national register counted 12 people named Chailan, about 1 in 3.8 million residents.

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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, “Chailan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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