Čelan
surname · Latin script
Čelan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 10K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 14K
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 86K
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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
415 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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 across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Čelan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | 415 | 1 in 10K | 415 | Čelan | 30 |
| AR Argentina | 379 | 1 in 120K | 379 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 146 | 1 in 14K | 146 | Čelan | 6 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Čelan | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 26 | 1 in 8.1M | 26 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 2 |
415 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sabina Bricelj Čelanb. 1979SIresearcher
- Dušan ČelanSISlovenian researcher
- Marko ČelanSISlovenian researcher
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 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 415 | #1,799 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 361 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 146 | #3,070 |
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
- In which country does Čelan have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 415 people named Čelan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled čelan.
- Where is Čelan most common?
- Čelan is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 10 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Čelan?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 415 people named Čelan in 2021, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Čelan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%8DelanThe 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, “Čelan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.