Soldan
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The ruler of a major Muslim state in the Middle Ages, especially the Sultan of Egypt
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈsoʊɫdən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Soldan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 14K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 16K
- FIFinland1 in 50K
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
680 people
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The ruler of a major Muslim state in the Middle Ages, especially the Sultan of Egypt.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 32 languages in the etymology graph.
How Soldan is read(measured from records)
Soldan is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English36%
The ruler of a major Muslim state in the Middle Ages, especially the Sultan of Egypt.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish32%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Soldan in Spanish.
- German5.6%
from Sultan
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
s. Sultan
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- Portuguese5.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Soldan in Portuguese.
- Croatian5.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Soldan in Croatian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Soldan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | 680 | 1 in 16K | 680 | — | — |
| US United States | 507 | 1 in 656K | 531 | Soldan | 62 |
| DE Germany | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 161K | listed | — | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 169K | listed | Soldan | 9 |
| ES Spain | 335 | 1 in 149K | 335 | Soldan | 42 |
| HR Croatia | 310 | 1 in 14K | 310 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 112 | 1 in 50K | 112 | — | 1 |
| SK Slovakia | 99 | 1 in 55K | 99 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 65 | 1 in 52K | 65 | Soldan | 7 |
680 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; the deutsche-namenkunde-gottschald-1982 register. 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)
Soldan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma regional reduzida de Soldano
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Soldano
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Galician, third-person plural present indicative of soldar
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)
- August Ferdinand Soldanb. 1799DEGerman classical philologist and teacher
- Wilhelm Gottlieb Soldanb. 1803DEGerman politician, author and historian
- August Fredrik Soldanb. 1817RUFinnish engineer (1817–1885)
- Wilhelm Soldanb. 1842DEGerman archaeologist and prehistorian (1842–1905)
- Venny Soldan-Brofeldtb. 1863FIFinland Swedish visual artist and painter (1863-1945)
- August Soldanb. 1870FIFinnish painter (1870-1942)
- Björn Soldanb. 1902FIFinnish photographer and cinematographer
- Louis Soldanb. 1920ATAustrian actor (1920-1971)
- Narciso Soldanb. 1927ITItalian footballer (1927–1987)
- Christoph Soldanb. 1964DEGerman pianist
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)
Attested in 37 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 531 | #43,758 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 510 | #40,397 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 507 | #42,720 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 335 | #11,032 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 335 | #11,025 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 310 | #2,582 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 235 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 112 | #11,719 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 65 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 51 | — |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 23 | #14,644 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 22 | #50,600 |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Soldan mean, and where does it come from?
- The ruler of a major Muslim state in the Middle Ages, especially the Sultan of Egypt. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Soldan?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsoʊɫdən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Soldan have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 680 people named Soldan, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Soldan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Soldan is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though Czechia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Soldan?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 680 people named Soldan, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/soldanThe 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, “Soldan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.