Dalan
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dalan is a 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
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dalan 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dalan is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In btx, path, road; means to achieve something; cause of something; way of doing something
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In bbc, way, path; manner, way, means; opportunity; cause, occasion
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Javanese, road, street, passage; way, route; way, means
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In kzi, path, road
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In mbb, path
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In agn, road, street; fig., the way, methodology, standards one follows in one’s work, life, beliefs; the way by which something is achieved, accomplished
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)
- Bedrettin Dalanb. 1941TRTurkish statesperson (born 1941)
- Dalan Ancrumb. 1996USAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
- Dalan Baileyb. 2000GBresearcher and virologist
- Dalan MussonUSAmerican screenwriter
- Darko DalanSIresearcher
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 45 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 445 | #18,904 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 202 | #96,572 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 190 | #95,955 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 149 | #109,915 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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
- What does the name Dalan 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.
- In which country does Dalan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 593 people named Dalan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled D'Alan.
- Where is Dalan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dalan 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 Dalan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 593 people named Dalan in 2020, about 1 in 561 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Dalan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dalanThe 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, “Dalan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.