Orlan
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Orlan is a given name, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Apocopic form of Orland.
- PHPhilippines1 in 24K◐
- USUnited States1 in 433K
- GYGuyana1 in 34K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈5.7K ◐
- Sources
- 81 ●
- 1 in 24K ◐
across 12 countries
14K records
Official registry-verified
Philippines
Meaning & origin●
Apocopic form of Orland.
Sources 1
Where in the world●
Sorted by estimated bearers.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈4.6K | 4.8K rec. | 1 in 24K | — | Orlan | 23 |
| US United States | ≈769 | 8K rec. | 1 in 433K | 494 | Orlan | 81 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈77 | 227 rec. | 1 in 849K | — | Orlan | 13 |
| CA Canada | ≈58 | 169 rec. | 1 in 654K | — | Orlan | 15 |
| BR Brazil | ≈52△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 4.1M | 538 | Orlan | 2 |
| AU Australia | ≈32 | 125 rec. | 1 in 786K | 1 | Orlan | 8 |
| DE Germany | ≈32 | 42 rec. | 1 in 2.5M | — | Orlan | 8 |
| SG Singapore | ≈30 | 47 rec. | 1 in 209K | — | Orlan | 3 |
| BE Belgium | ≈23 | 30 rec. | 1 in 504K | — | Orlan | 7 |
| GY Guyana | ≈22 | 38 rec. | 1 in 34K | 34 | Orlan | 3 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈11 | 18 rec. | 1 in 250K | — | Orlan | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈2 | 26 rec. | 1 in 9.4M | — | Orlan | 7 |
Roughly 4.6K people in Philippines bear this name (about 1 in 24K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English13K59%
- Portuguese4.7K21%
- Spanish2.8K12%
- French6953%
- Italian881%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 13,215 | 59% |
| Portuguese | 4,735 | 21% |
| Spanish | 2,780 | 12% |
| French | 695 | 3% |
| Italian | 88 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1898 | 5 |
| 1909 | 6 |
| 1912 | 9 |
| 1913 | 9 |
| 1914 | 19 |
| 1915 | 18 |
| 1916 | 18 |
| 1917 | 21 |
| 1918 | 24 |
| 1919 | 21 |
| 1920 | 14 |
| 1921 | 31 |
| 1922 | 26 |
| 1923 | 25 |
| 1924 | 24 |
| 1925 | 28 |
| 1926 | 32 |
| 1927 | 25 |
| 1928 | 19 |
| 1929 | 19 |
| 1930 | 14 |
| 1931 | 24 |
| 1932 | 21 |
| 1933 | 17 |
| 1934 | 23 |
| 1935 | 23 |
| 1936 | 23 |
| 1937 | 17 |
| 1938 | 14 |
| 1939 | 15 |
| 1940 | 11 |
| 1941 | 16 |
| 1942 | 20 |
| 1943 | 18 |
| 1944 | 14 |
| 1945 | 19 |
| 1946 | 14 |
| 1947 | 11 |
| 1948 | 16 |
| 1949 | 10 |
| 1950 | 7 |
| 1951 | 12 |
| 1953 | 9 |
| 1954 | 13 |
| 1955 | 9 |
| 1956 | 17 |
| 1957 | 13 |
| 1958 | 9 |
| 1959 | 8 |
| 1960 | 10 |
| 1962 | 8 |
| 1963 | 9 |
| 1965 | 7 |
| 1966 | 7 |
| 1972 | 5 |
| 1976 | 7 |
| 1977 | 6 |
| 1985 | 6 |
| 2002 | 6 |
| 2006 | 5 |
| 2008 | 5 |
| 2012 | 5 |
| 2017 | 6 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2020 | 6 |
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2022 | 6 |
| 2024 | 7 |
| 2025 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 69 years between 1898–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Orlan W. Bostonb. 1891USAmerican mechanical engineer (1891–1991)
- Orlan LeeUSAmerican lawyer and professor of East Asian studies
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●
Attested in 23 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 538 | #5,868 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 526 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 523 | #13,899 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 515 | #12,899 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 495 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 494 | #20,564 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 418 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 287 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 150 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 137 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 131 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 110 | — |
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 2026-09-03 data build · 153 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Orlan?
- We estimate roughly 5.7 thousand people bear Orlan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Orlan have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 4.6 thousand people bear Orlan in the Philippines, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled orlan.
- Where is Orlan most common?
- Orlan is densest in the Philippines, where we estimate about 1 in 24 thousand people carry it.
- Is Orlan a male or female name?
- Orlan 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.
- What does the name Orlan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Apocopic form of Orland.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Orlan”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.