Dálan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dálan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Proto-Philippine *dálan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zalan, from Proto-Austronesian *zalan.
- ALAlbania1 in 83K(measured from records)
- XKKosovo≈1 in 233K
- HRCroatia1 in 325K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- 1 in 83K (inferred from the name graph)
593 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled D'Alan in US United States.
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(measured from records)
- Proto-Philippine*dálan(measured from records)
- Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*zalan(measured from records)
- Proto-Austronesian*zalan(measured from records)
Inherited from Proto-Philippine *dálan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zalan, from Proto-Austronesian *zalan. Compare Amis lalan, Bikol Central dalan, Chamorro chalan, Kapampangan dalan, Kavalan razan, Malay jalan, Tagalog daan.
Sources 2
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dálan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 593 | 1 in 561K | 552 | D'Alan | 149 |
| BR Brazil | 261 | 1 in 811K | 261 | — | 48 |
| AR Argentina | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 4 | — | 14 |
| AL Albania | 37 | 1 in 83K | 37 | — | 6 |
| IT Italy | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | 1 | — | 13 |
| HR Croatia | 13 | 1 in 325K | 14 | — | — |
| XK Kosovo | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 233K | 19 | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
593 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling dalan. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dálan mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Proto-Philippine *dálan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zalan, from Proto-Austronesian *zalan. Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary.
- Is Dálan a male or female name?
- Dálan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Dálan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 593 people named Dálan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled D'Alan.
- Where is Dálan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dálan is densest in Albania — about 1 in 83 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dálan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 593 people named Dálan in 2020, about 1 in 561 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%A1lanThe 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, “Dálan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.