Zailan
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zailan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 176K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 194K
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.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
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)
Zailan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #837 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Zailan | 38 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 194K | — | Zailan | 25 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 5.7M | — | Zailan | 3 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 176K | — | Zailan | 13 |
| US United States | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 45M | 5 | Zailan | 11 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 18M | 1 | Zailan | 7 |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Zailan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Zailan in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zailan.
- How common is the name Zailan?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1,800 people in Malaysia have Zailan as their first surname, about 1 in 18 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Zailan compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Zailan is the 837th most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zailan?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zailanThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Zailan” — the 837th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.