Maelan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Breton: « prince, chef élevé »
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maəlɑ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maelan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 135K(inferred from the name graph)
- GPGuadeloupe≈1 in 79K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 592K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 79K (inferred from the name graph)
≈500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guadeloupe, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Breton: « prince, chef élevé ». Fête/saint non indiqué.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maelan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 135K | 1.9K | Maelan | 107 |
| BE Belgium | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 592K | — | Maelan | 8 |
| PH Philippines | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 5.5M | — | Maelan | 2 |
| US United States | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 25M | 6 | Maelan | 9 |
| GP Guadeloupe | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 79K | 5 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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)
Maelan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Origine celtique, signifie « prince ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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.
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 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 905 | #1,640 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #28,994 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2 | #38,242 |
| FR France | Dictionnaire Généalogique des Prénoms (Athias, 2007) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Maelan?
- A machine transcription gives /maəlɑ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Maelan a male or female name?
- Maelan 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.
- What does the name Maelan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Breton: « prince, chef élevé ».
- In which country does Maelan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 504 people named Maelan in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maelan.
- How common is the name Maelan?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Maelan in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.
What do you want to know about Maelan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maelanThe 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, “Maelan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.