Erland
given name · Latin script
Meaning: alter deutscher männl
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɝɫənd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Erland is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 6.9K
- FIFinland1 in 9.2K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
7,196 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
alter deutscher männl. Vom.; die
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Erland 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.
7,196 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
Erland is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
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as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Scandinavian: from an Old Norse personal name, originally a byname from the vocabulary word örlendr foreigner, stranger. Variant: Erlend .
as a word
In Swedish, a male given name derived from Old Norse Erlendr "foreigner".
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)
- Erland Samuel Bringb. 1736SESwedish mathematician
- Erland Nordenskiöldb. 1877SESwedish archeologist and anthropologist (1877–1932)
- Erkki Karub. 1887FInot in their usual nameFinnish filmmaker (1887–1935)
- Erland von Kochb. 1910SESwedish composer, educator, conductor, organist and pianist (1910–2009)
- Erland Herkenrathb. 1912CHSwiss handball player (1912-2003)
- Erland Almqvistb. 1912SEsailor
- Erland Josephsonb. 1923SESwedish actor, film director and author (1923-2012)
- Erland Kopsb. 1937DKDanish badminton player (1937–2017)
- Erland Johnsenb. 1967NONorwegian footballer
- Erland Hellströmb. 1980SESwedish association football goalkeeper
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 50 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 858 | #1,393 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 429 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 255 | #71,372 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 234 | #80,926 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 230 | #87,019 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 30 | #16,556 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #35,131 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Erland come from?
- alter deutscher männl. Vom.; die Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
- How do you pronounce Erland?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɝɫənd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Erland have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 7.2 thousand people named Erland, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled erland.
- Where is Erland most common?
- Erland is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 thousand people carrying it.
- What does the name Erland mean?
- Recorded meaning: alter deutscher männl.
- Is Erland a male or female name?
- Erland is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Erland?
- In the etymology graph, Erlend, Erlendur and Erlendr are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Erland?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 7,196 people named Erland, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Erland compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Erland is the 294th most common given name of 14,891 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Erland?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/erlandThe 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, “Erland” — the 294th most common given name in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.