Durğan

surname · Latin script

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

Durğan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English *dwerghen, *dwerghin, diminutive of dwergh (“dwarf”), equivalent to dwarf + -en.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 699K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 276K
  • NONorway1 in 781K

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.

United States (measured from records)

1,204 people, 2010

Sources
22 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 276K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Durgan in TR Türkiye, US United States, SY Syria.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Middle English *dwerghen, *dwerghin, diminutive of dwergh (“dwarf”), equivalent to dwarf + -en.

Sources 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Durğan 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 Durğan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,2041 in 276K1.2KDurgaN9
TR Türkiye≈120 est.≈1 in 699K—DurgaN22
BR Brazil311 in 6.8M31——
NO Norway71 in 781K7——
SY Syria≈3 est.≈1 in 7M—DurgaN2

1,204 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling durgan. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Durğan is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Ukraine

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written DurgaN

  • Indonesian name3 spellings in the group

    Also written DurgaN

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, United States, Syria

    Also written DurgaN

1 further group 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Durğan mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English *dwerghen, *dwerghin, diminutive of dwergh (“dwarf”), equivalent to dwarf + -en. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
In which country does Durğan have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Durğan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled DurgaN.
Where is Durğan most common?
Durğan is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 276 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Durğan?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,204 people named Durğan in 2010, about 1 in 276 thousand 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, “Durğan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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