Declan Surname

640,141st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 475 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Ireland

Declan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Declan Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria3101:571,42827,680
Ireland391:120,7426,025
Cameroon291:716,17551,453
France201:3,321,136213,627
England161:3,482,379114,324
United States121:30,204,911765,334
Ghana91:3,002,29911,581
Malaysia71:4,213,461150,293
Scotland41:1,338,45435,497
Saudi Arabia41:7,713,95437,548
Thailand21:35,319,172966,191
China21:683,660,78330,601
Canada21:18,422,796409,488
Iceland21:190,0456,825
Afghanistan21:16,076,59243,178
Papua New Guinea21:4,076,858165,791
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
Turkey11:77,821,422191,047
Uganda11:39,039,279258,887
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
India11:767,065,3821,851,717
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732
Montenegro11:639,5659,092
Greece11:11,079,790145,225
Czechia11:10,633,469206,023
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
Austria11:8,515,435118,036
Northern Ireland11:1,845,03620,648
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Scotland11:3,743,21632,299

Declan (32,782) may also be a first name.

Declan Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Declan Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Declan (Marathi: डेकलन) is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can occur as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Declan? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 640,141st most common family name worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 15,342,202 people. The last name Declan occurs mostly in Africa, where 74 percent of Declan reside; 67 percent reside in West Africa and 67 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Declan is also the 26,022nd most commonly used given name on earth, held by 32,782 people.

The last name is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 310 people, or 1 in 571,428. In Nigeria Declan is mostly found in: Adamawa, where 40 percent reside, Lagos, where 8 percent reside and Enugu, where 8 percent reside. Without taking into account Nigeria this surname occurs in 28 countries. It also occurs in Ireland, where 8 percent reside and Cameroon, where 6 percent reside.

Declan Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Declan has changed through the years. In Scotland the number of people bearing the Declan last name grew 400 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Phonetically Similar Names

Declan Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Declan in the Marathi language
डेकलनdekalana-

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Declan
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