Forland
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
/fɔrlɑnː/(machine-generated) Norwegian · model-generated
Forland is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 8.9K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 255K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1Mfew records
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.9K (inferred from the name graph)
612 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Forland is found
(measured from records)Forland 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 | 612 | 1 in 8.9K | 612 | Forland | 19 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 465K | — | Forland | 1 |
| US United States | 242 | 1 in 1.4M | 305 | Forland | 144 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Forland | 35 |
| CA Canada | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 796K | — | Forland | 15 |
| DK Denmark | 23 | 1 in 255K | 23 | — | — |
612 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 — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ellen Marie Forlandb. 1926NONorwegian businesswoman (1926-2010)
- Frode Forlandb. 1956NONorwegian medical doctor
- Morten Forlandfilm director
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)11 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 Forland?
- In Norwegian /fɔrlɑnː/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Forland?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 612 people named Forland, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled forland. After it come Pakistan, United States, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Forland most common?
- Forland is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Forland?
- In Norway, the national register counted 612 people named Forland, about 1 in 8.9 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Forland?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/forlandThe 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, “Forland”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.