Erman
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Yiğit, kahraman, yürekli kimse
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/eɾman̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Erman is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ALAlbania1 in 106K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 124K
- UYUruguay1 in 212K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- 1 in 106K (inferred from the name graph)
369 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Yiğit, kahraman, yürekli kimse.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Erman 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 369 | 1 in 901K | 700 | Erman | 55 |
| BR Brazil | 52 | 1 in 4.1M | 52 | Erman | 20 |
| NL Netherlands | 36 | 1 in 480K | 36 | — | 2 |
| AL Albania | 29 | 1 in 106K | 29 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 27 | 1 in 1.4M | 27 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 17 | 1 in 124K | 271 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 16 | 1 in 367K | 110 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 16 | 1 in 212K | 29 | — | 5 |
| CR Costa Rica | 13 | 1 in 392K | 13 | — | 4 |
369 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Erman is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma reduzida de Ermano.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In German, from Ehrmann or Erdmann; sometimes from IRMIN
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Italian, Variante di Armanni
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Kurdish, Wish, desire
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Erman Okayb. 1939TRTurkish actor and screenwriter (born 1939)
- Erman Kunterb. 1956TRTurkish-French basketball player and coach (born 1956)
- Ahmet Erman Tekkayab. 1957TRTurkish college professor (born 1957)
- Erman Ilıcakb. 1967TRTurkish businessperson (born 1967)
- Erman Güraçarb. 1974TRTurkish association football player (born 1974)
- Erman Özgürb. 1977TRTurkish association football player (born 1977)
- Erman Sabanb. 1983MKTurkish-Macedonian actor (born 1983)
- Erman Kılıçb. 1983TRTurkish association football player (born 1983)
- Erman Yıldırımb. 1983TRTurkish association football player (born 1983)
- Erman Bulucub. 1989TRTurkish association football player (born 1989)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 58 sources across 30 countries.
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Erman?
- A machine transcription gives /eɾman̪/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Erman mean?
- Recorded meaning: Yiğit, kahraman, yürekli kimse.
- Is Erman a male or female name?
- Erman 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.
- In which country does Erman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 369 people named Erman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled erman.
- Where is Erman most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Erman is densest in Albania — about 1 in 106 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Erman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 369 people named Erman in 2020, about 1 in 901 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, “Erman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.