Seelan

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Seelan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 2M
  • INIndia1 in 95M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Seelan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

24 named Silan, 2026

Sources
27 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Seelan 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.

Where Seelan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland24as Silan1 in 1.6M14——
IN India141 in 95M14Seelan27
BE Belgium10as Silan1 in 1.2M10——
CH Switzerland71 in 1.2M7—1
DK Denmark31 in 2M52——
CZ Czechia1as Silan1 in 11M1——

24 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Seelan is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Thai surname28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Malaysia, India, United States

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written สีลาน, Silan, สลาน, สุลานี, Sulanee

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Seelan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—42#5,424
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—21#61,295
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—18#84,203
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—14#100,252
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—14#1,373
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—14#14,128
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—12#4,800
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—11#23,125
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—11#12,302
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—9#9,655
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20247#79,838
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—6#1,583

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Seelan have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 24 people named Silan, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Seelan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Seelan is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 1.2 million people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Seelan?
In India, the national register counted 14 people named Seelan, about 1 in 95 million residents.

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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, “Seelan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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