Lotan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A biblical name meaning 'covering' or 'veil'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Lotan is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 250K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 3.5M
- KEKenya≈1 in 940K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- 1 in 250K (inferred from the name graph)
≈57 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A biblical name meaning 'covering' or 'veil'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lotan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 936K | — | Lotan | 6 |
| US United States | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 12M | 149 | Lotan | 23 |
| VN Vietnam | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 7.1M | — | Lotan | 4 |
| PL Poland | 11 | 1 in 3.5M | 33 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 10M | — | Lotan | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 3 | 1 in 250K | 3 | — | — |
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 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 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)Lotan 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.
Covering, veil, or wrapped up
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Serbo-Croatian, masculine singular passive past participle of lotati
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, definite nominative singular of lota
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, genitive singular of lotta
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)- Giora Lotanb. 1902ILIsraeli jurist
- Yael Lotanb. 1935ILIsraeli author, translator and journalist (1935-2009)
- Ilana LotanILprofessor,Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Research Member
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 149 | #121,931 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 137 | #125,282 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 112 | #137,816 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 33 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 33 | #65,674 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 25 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 25 | #78,586 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Lotan mean, and where does it come from?
- A biblical name meaning 'covering' or 'veil'. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- Is Lotan a male or female name?
- Lotan 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 Lotan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 57 people named Lotan in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lotan.
- Where is Lotan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lotan is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 250 thousand people — even though Kenya holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lotan?
- In Poland, the national register counted 11 people named Lotan in 2026, about 1 in 3.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Lotan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lotanThe 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, “Lotan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.