Kolander
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Kalander, a status name for the chairman or a member of a religious or other fraternity that held meetings on the first of each month, from Latin ad calendas
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɑɫəndɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kolander is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- DEGermany
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Kalander, a status name for the chairman or a member of a religious or other fraternity that held meetings on the first of each month, from Latin ad calendas. This name is often Americanized as Calender.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Barbara Kolanderb. 1958NLbadminton player
- Rok Kolanderb. 1980SISlovenian rower
- Smadar Abramovitch-KollendeILnot in their usual nameIsraeli jurist
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 16 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 632 | #37,808 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 584 | #36,232 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 574 | #38,532 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 78 | #5,414 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 37 | #29,442 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 11 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 11 | #127,783 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 8 | #44,084 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #164,677 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Kolander mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Kalander, a status name for the chairman or a member of a religious or other fraternity that held meetings on the first of each month, from Latin ad calendas. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kolander?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɑɫəndɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kolander have the most bearers?
- Kolander is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kolanderThe 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
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kolander”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.