Herlan
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Herlan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bolivia. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Indonesian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: variant of Harlan (see Harland).
- BRBrazil1 in 358K◐
- BOBolivia1 in 9.7K
- HNHonduras1 in 115K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈655 ●
- Sources
- 47 ●
- 1 in 159K ◐
across 5 countries
4.7K records
Official registry-verified
Costa Rica
Meaning & origin●
variant of Harlan (see Harland).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BO Bolivia | #119 | 905 | 614 rec. | — | — | Herlan | 27 |
| BR Brazil | — | 591△ | 278 rec. | 1 in 358K | 591 | Herlan | 47 |
| AR Argentina | — | 583 | 2.6K rec. | — | 422 | Herlan | 33 |
| PE Peru | — | 283 | 251 rec. | — | — | Herlan | 15 |
| US United States | — | 252 | 291 rec. | — | 223 | Herlan | 39 |
| PH Philippines | — | 163 | 107 rec. | — | — | Herlan | 7 |
| HN Honduras | — | 159 | 155 rec. | — | — | Herlan | 12 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 91 | 91 rec. | — | — | Herlan | 7 |
| NI Nicaragua | — | 74 | 74 rec. | — | — | Herlan | 4 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 32 | 55 rec. | 1 in 159K | 32 | Herlan | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | 28 | 39 rec. | 1 in 1.8M | 28 | Herlan | 25 |
| GY Guyana | — | 2 | — | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese7.8K51%
- Indonesian3K19%
- Spanish2.6K17%
- English1.3K9%
- French701%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 7,805 | 51% |
| Indonesian | 2,974 | 19% |
| Spanish | 2,586 | 17% |
| English | 1,337 | 9% |
| French | 70 | 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 |
|---|---|
| 1960 | 17 |
| 1970 | 46 |
| 1980 | 119 |
| 1990 | 257 |
| 2000 | 392 |
| 2010 | 505 |
| 2020 | 569 |
| 2022 | 591 |
BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 8 years between 1960–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Peter Herlanb. 1909USAmerican lepidopterist, museum curator, author and collector
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 26 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 591 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 574 | #11,923 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 569 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 505 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 470 | #6,412 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 452 | #15,256 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 422 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 392 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 257 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 223 | #84,136 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 220 | #90,184 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 211 | #83,004 |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 105 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Herlan?
- We estimate roughly 655 people bear Herlan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Herlan have the most bearers?
- Herlan is most frequently recorded in Bolivia, where it is most often spelled herlan.
- How common is Herlan compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Herlan is the 119th most common given name of 14,901 given names recorded there.
- Is Herlan a male or female name?
- Herlan 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 Herlan mean?
- Recorded meaning: variant of Harlan (see Harland).
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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.
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, “Herlan” — the 119th most common given name in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.