Gulan
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡɫən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gulan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from a derivative of Gula.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 208K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
- HRCroatia1 in 8.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Croatia
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(measured from records)
from a derivative of Gula.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gulan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 447K | — | Gulan | 2 |
| PH Philippines | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Gulan | 19 |
| HR Croatia | 486 | 1 in 8.7K | 486 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 356 | 1 in 108K | 179 | — | — |
| US United States | 256 | 1 in 1.3M | 294 | Gulan | 110 |
| CH Switzerland | 22 | 1 in 382K | 22 | Gulan | 6 |
| SI Slovenia | 7 | 1 in 300K | 7 | — | — |
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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Gulan is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Kurdish, The month of May, the season when roses bloom
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In se, first-person singular present indicative of gullat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Kurdish, May (fifth month of the Gregorian calendar)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite singular of gula
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)
- Mike Gulanb. 1970USAmerican baseball player
- Nikola Gulanb. 1989RSSerbian footballer
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)
Attested in 29 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 486 | #1,473 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 471 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 294 | #63,450 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 283 | #73,776 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 256 | #75,317 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 179 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 179 | #17,922 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 177 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 177 | #18,391 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 22 | #34,100 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 7 | #23,330 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Gulan mean, and where does it come from?
- from a derivative of Gula. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gulan?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɫən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gulan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Gulan in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gulan.
- Where is Gulan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gulan is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 8.7 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gulan?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 486 people named Gulan in 2021, about 1 in 8.7 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gulan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gulanThe 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, “Gulan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.