Sallan
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sallan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: third-person plural present indicative of sallar.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 100K(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 217K
- RERéunion≈1 in 14K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
third-person plural present indicative of sallar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sallan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Sallan | 33 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 217K | — | Sallan | 17 |
| SY Syria | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Sallan | 8 |
| ES Spain | 193 | 1 in 259K | 193 | Sallan | 9 |
| US United States | 101 | 1 in 3.3M | 126 | Sallan | 86 |
| RE Réunion | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Sallan | 1 |
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). 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)
Sallan 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 Breton, saler
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)
- Lauren Cole SallanUSAmerican paleobiologist
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 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 193 | #17,011 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 193 | #16,980 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 126 | #137,553 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 101 | #159,712 |
| 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 Sallan mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person plural present indicative of sallar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Sallan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Sallan in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sallan.
- How common is the name Sallan?
- In Spain, the national register counted 193 people named Sallan, about 1 in 259 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sallan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sallanThe same 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), 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, “Sallan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.