Mollan
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
/mollan/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Mollan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): scattered. from Ó Maoláin, see Mullen . 2 English: variant of Molland with loss of final -d.
- NONorway1 in 13K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 870Kfew records
- SESweden≈1 in 1M
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
430 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): scattered. from Ó Maoláin, see Mullen . 2 English: variant of Molland with loss of final -d.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mollan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 430 | 1 in 13K | 430 | Mollan | 14 |
| US United States | 154 | 1 in 2.2M | 180 | Mollan | 94 |
| PE Peru | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 235K | — | Mollan | 16 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 867K | — | Mollan | 60 |
| IN India | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 23M | 1 | — | 3 |
| AU Australia | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Mollan | 22 |
| SE Sweden | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 1M | 5 | — | 3 |
430 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)Mollan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, An occasional variant of Mullan in Co. Down
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
In Galician, third-person plural present indicative of mollar
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)- Johan Arnt Mollanb. 1863NOmayor in Stjørna, Trøndelag, Norway
- Robert MollanIEIrish dean
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Mollan mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): scattered. from Ó Maoláin, see Mullen . 2 English: variant of Molland with loss of final -d. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Mollan?
- In Spanish /mollan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Mollan have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 430 people named Mollan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mollan.
- Where is Mollan most common?
- Mollan is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mollan?
- In Norway, the national register counted 430 people named Mollan, about 1 in 13 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/mollanThe 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, “Mollan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.