Dălan
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dălan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Proto-Philippine *dálan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zalan, from Proto-Austronesian *zalan.
- NONorway1 in 23K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 46K
- SESweden1 in 165K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 2 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
238 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Proto-Philippine*dálan(measured from records)
- Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*zalan(measured from records)
- Proto-Austronesian*zalan(measured from records)
Inherited from Proto-Philippine *dálan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zalan, from Proto-Austronesian *zalan. Compare Amis lalan, Bikol Central dalan, Chamorro chalan, Kapampangan dalan, Kavalan razan, Malay jalan, Tagalog daan.
Sources 2
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dălan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 238 | 1 in 23K | 238 | — | — |
| US United States | 190 | 1 in 1.8M | 552 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 127 | 1 in 46K | 127 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 62 | 1 in 165K | 62 | — | — |
| IN India | 35 | 1 in 38M | 35 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 8 | 1 in 1.5M | 8 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | 1 |
238 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Dălan mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Proto-Philippine *dálan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zalan, from Proto-Austronesian *zalan. Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Dălan have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 238 people named Dălan, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Dălan most common?
- Dălan is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 23 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dălan?
- In Norway, the national register counted 238 people named Dălan, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C4%83lanThe 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, “Dălan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.