Bolan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: different form of Boland (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
/βolan/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Bolan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 2,149 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 18K(measured from records)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 64Kfew records
- GYGuyana≈1 in 120K
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)
- Record sources
- 245 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
2,149 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Bolan
- Spanish:/βolan/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)different form of Boland.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where the surname Bolan is found
(measured from records)Bolan 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 | 2,149 | 1 in 155K | 2.1K | Bolan | 245 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | Bolan | 87 |
| MX Mexico | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 308K | 19 | — | — |
| CA Canada | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 150K | — | Bolan | 72 |
| PH Philippines | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 607K | — | Bolan | 7 |
| SG Singapore | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Bolan | 2 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Bolan | 3 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Bolan | 3 |
| GY Guyana | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 118K | 2 | — | 1 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 3 | 1 in 18K | 3 | — | 1 |
2,149 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Bolan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From Bodländer.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
In kyj, moon
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovenian, ill (suffering from a disease)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, painful
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mrw, month
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)- George Bolanb. 1897USAmerican football player (1897-1940)
- Mike Bolanb. 1933CACanadian politician (1933-2016)
- Peter O'ToolUSnot in their usual nameactor
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bolan mean, and where does it come from?
- different form of Boland. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Bolan?
- In Spanish /βolan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bolan?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Bolan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bolan. After it come United Kingdom, Mexico, Canada and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bolan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bolan is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bolan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,149 people named Bolan in 2010, about 1 in 155 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bolan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bolanThe 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, “Bolan” — ranked 13748th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.