Jelan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: born on Friday
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dʒɫən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jelan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 87Kas Elan(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 202Kas Elan
- SYSyria≈1 in 160K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jelan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 320 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 160K (inferred from the name graph)
3,834 named Elan, 2020
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Elan in US United States, PH Philippines, CA Canada and 2 more.
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)
born on Friday
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jelan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,834as Elan | 1 in 87K | 3K | Elan | 320 |
| BR Brazil | 1,307as Elan | 1 in 162K | 1.3K | Jelan | 3 |
| PH Philippines | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 202K | — | Elan | 26 |
| EG Egypt | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 288K | — | Jelan | 15 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Elan | 24 |
| CA Canada | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 127K | 1 | Elan | 97 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 117K | — | Jelan | 10 |
| SY Syria | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 160K | — | Jelan | 6 |
| SG Singapore | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Elan | 18 |
3,834 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)
- Jelan Kendrickb. 1991USAmerican basketball player (born 1991)
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 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 116 | #44,236 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 41 | #44,236 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 5 | — |
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 Jelan mean, and where does it come from?
- born on Friday Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Jelan?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒɫən/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Jelan a male or female name?
- Jelan 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.
- In which country does Jelan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named Elan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Jelan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,834 people named Elan in 2020, about 1 in 87 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jelanThe 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, “Jelan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.