Family name origins & meanings
- Croatian and Serbian : nickname for someone with white or very fair hair or a pale complexion, from bijel, beo ‘white’.
- Czech (Bělán) and Slovak (Belán) : nickname from Czech bílý , Slovak biely ‘white’, or derivative of the female personal name Běla (see Belin).
- French (Bélan) : unexplained.
- A bearer of the name Bélan was buried in Quebec city in 1688; his origins are unknown.