Lordan
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lordan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: relationship name from Ó Lórdáin ‘descendant of Lórdán’, a West Cork personal name of unknown origin.
- DMDominica1 in 74K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 75K
- ESSpain1 in 321K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)
342 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
relationship name from Ó Lórdáin ‘descendant of Lórdán’, a West Cork personal name of unknown origin.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lordan 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 | 342 | 1 in 973K | 343 | Lordan | 7 |
| ES Spain | 156 | 1 in 321K | 156 | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | 56 | 1 in 75K | 56 | Lordan | 17 |
| CH Switzerland | 9 | 1 in 934K | 9 | — | — |
| DM Dominica | 1 | 1 in 74K | 1 | — | — |
342 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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)
Lordan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Var.: Lotte. cendant of Lordan', a personal name of unknown origin. The surname is particularly common in W Cork. Patr.: Lots. Lo Re see Ray Lotze see Lewis Loubat see Low Loria see Luria Louckx see Lewis Lo Riccio see Ricci Lorie see Lowry Lorieu see Oriol
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 Lordain ‘descendant of Lordan', a personal name of unknown origin. The surname is particularly common in the west of County Cork.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
cendant of Lordan’, a personal name of unknown origin. The surname is particularly common in W Cork.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In Turkish, ablative singular of lor
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, rosser
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)
- John Lordanb. 1876USAmerican runner
- Jerry Lordanb. 1934GBBritish songwriter, composer and singer (1934–1995)
- Francesc Larraz i Lordanb. 1938ESSpanish association football player
- Erin Lordanb. 1963GBBritish singer
- Cillian Lordanb. 1982IEIrish footballer
- Wayne LordanIEIrish jockey
- Lorraine Lordananimation director
- Francesc LordanESresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-9845-8890)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 343 | #62,967 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 342 | #59,171 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 317 | #59,611 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 156 | #19,980 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 156 | #19,909 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 56 | #12,267 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 51 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 9 | #65,843 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #226 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Lordan mean, and where does it come from?
- relationship name from Ó Lórdáin ‘descendant of Lórdán’, a West Cork personal name of unknown origin. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- In which country does Lordan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 342 people named Lordan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lordan.
- Where is Lordan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lordan is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 74 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lordan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 342 people named Lordan in 2010, about 1 in 973 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lordanThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Lordan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.