Paldan
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries
/pɑɫdən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Paldan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 22K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 133K
- SESweden1 in 352K
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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
250 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Paldan 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.
250 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Stefan Paldanb. 1971SESwedish association football player
- Peter Paldanb. 1979Danish athletics competitor
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 448 | #50 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 250 | #6,239 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 111 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 44 | #11,840 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 29 | #19,177 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 9 | #130,803 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #61,039 |
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
- How do you pronounce Paldan?
- A machine transcription gives /pɑɫdən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Paldan have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 250 people named Paldan, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Paldan most common?
- Paldan is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 22 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Paldan?
- In Finland, the national register counted 250 people named Paldan, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Paldan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paldanThe 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, “Paldan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.