Çalkan

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Çalkan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Su birikintisi.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 42K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CACanada≈1 in 11M
  • PLPoland1 in 19M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,000 people, est.

Sources
25 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Calkan in CA Canada.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Turkish

Su birikintisi.

Sources 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Çalkan 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.

Where Çalkan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye≈2,000 est.≈1 in 42K—Çalkan25
RU Russia≈5 est.≈1 in 26M—Çalkan1
CA Canada≈3 est.≈1 in 11M—Calkan3
PL Poland21 in 19M2——

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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Çalkan is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Türkiye, Austria

    Languages: German, English

    Also written Calkan

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Calkan

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Calkan

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Calkan

18 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Çalkan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In otk, apparently survives as çalkan ‘stinging nettle’ in several NE languages and NC Kır.

    as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Çalkan under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Çalkan mean?
Recorded meaning: Su birikintisi.
In which country does Çalkan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Çalkan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled çalkan.
How common is the name Çalkan?
In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Çalkan in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.

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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, “Çalkan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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