Tamilan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Synonym of Tamilian
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Tamilan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 120Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 250Kfew records
- QAQatar≈1 in 72Kfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)
≈960 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Qatar, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Synonym of Tamilian.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tamilan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | listed | Tamilan | 20 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 249K | — | Tamilan | 7 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 390K | — | Tamilan | 5 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 185K | — | Tamilan | 2 |
| SG Singapore | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Tamilan | 3 |
| QA Qatar | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Tamilan | 3 |
| BH Bahrain | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | Tamilan | 2 |
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.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tamilan mean, and where does it come from?
- Synonym of Tamilian. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Tamilan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 961 people named Tamilan in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tamilan.
- How common is the name Tamilan?
- Mondonomo estimates about 960 people in India have Tamilan as their first surname, about 1 in 1.5 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tamilanThe 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, “Tamilan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.