Morlan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from Santa Marfa Morlan in the province of A Coruna
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/moɾlan/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Morlan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Heard & McDonald Islands it is the 37th most common surname.
- UYUruguay1 in 25K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 123K
- ESSpain1 in 174K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
2,697 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)habitational name from Santa Marfa Morlan in the province of A Coruna.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Morlan 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 | — | 2,697 | 1 in 123K | 2.7K | Morlan | 234 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 187K | 21 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 287 | 1 in 174K | 287 | Morlan | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 315K | — | Morlan | 38 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 215K | — | Morlan | 17 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 133 | 1 in 25K | 133 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Morlan | 1 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #37 | — | — | — | Morlan | 1 |
2,697 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset). 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)- Margaret Fieldb. 1922USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1922-2011)
- John Morlanb. 1947USMajor League Baseball pitcher
- Eduardo Morlanb. 1986CUCuban baseball player
- Minjoo MorlanUSclinical assistant professor of field instruction and coordination
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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.7K | #11,626 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,189 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.2K | #13,115 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 287 | #12,490 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 287 | #12,467 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 133 | — |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 21 | #4,146 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Morlan mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from Santa Marfa Morlan in the province of A Coruna. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Morlan?
- In Spanish /moɾlan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Morlan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Morlan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled morlan.
- Where is Morlan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Morlan is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 25 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Morlan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,697 people named Morlan in 2010, about 1 in 123 thousand residents.
- How common is Morlan compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Morlan is the 37th most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/morlanThe 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, “Morlan” — the 37th most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.