Holan

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˈhoʊɫən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Holan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Two possible origins: * Borrowed from Czech Holan, Holaň, Holáň, all nicknames from holy (“naked, bare”).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 619K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 13K
  • NONorway1 in 18K

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.

Czechia (measured from records)

798 people

Sources
182 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Holan: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Holan
  1. CzechHolan(measured from records)
  2. Czech rootholy“naked“naked, bare”(measured from records)
  3. NorwegianHolan(measured from records)
  4. Old Norsehóll“round hill“round hill, mound”(measured from records)

Two possible origins: * Borrowed from Czech Holan, Holaň, Holáň, all nicknames from holy (“naked, bare”). * Borrowed from Norwegian Holan, habitational surname from several minor places, ultimately from Old Norse hóll (“round hill, mound”).

Sources 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Holan 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 Holan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia—7981 in 13K798—3
US United States—5371 in 619K569Holan182
NO Norway—3041 in 18K304Holan11
SA Saudi Arabia—≈160 est.≈1 in 215K—Holan6
IN India—≈120 est.≈1 in 11M—Holan4
SK Slovakia—791 in 69K79——
BZ Belize—≈7 est.≈1 in 61K—Holan1
GD Grenada#516———Holan1

798 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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; MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)

Holan is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Czech surname18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, Ukraine, United States

    Languages: Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian

    Also written Holaň, Holáň, Hoľan, Holán, Холан

  • Norwegian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, Sweden, Israel

    Languages: Norwegian, Swedish, Danish

    Also written HÔlÅn

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Holáň, Holaň, Holán, Holãn

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Holán, Holáň, Holaň

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Holáň

33 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)

16001700180019002000Václav Karel Holan Rovenský, b. 1644J.P. Holan, b. 1825Karel Holan, b. 1893Vladimír Holan, b. 1905Emil Holan, b. 1905Ladislav Dobromil Holan, b. 1939Jaromír Holan, b. 1941Ariel Holan, b. 1960Jakub Holeček, b. 1978

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)

FormalDear Holan,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Holan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—798#1,779
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—796#1,745
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000569#36,956
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020563#41,648
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010537#40,672
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—304#5,036
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)199579—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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 Holan mean, and where does it come from?
Two possible origins: * Borrowed from Czech Holan, Holaň, Holáň, all nicknames from holy (“naked, bare”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Holan?
A machine transcription gives /ˈhoʊɫən/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Holan have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 798 people named Holan, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Holan most common?
Holan is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Holan?
In Czechia, the national register counted 798 people named Holan, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
How common is Holan compared with other names?
In Grenada, Holan is the 516th most common surname of 3,427 surnames recorded there.

What do you want to know about Holan?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/holan

The 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, “Holan” — the 516th most common surname in Grenada. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Holan parses inside a full name →