Gūrkan

given name · Latin script

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

Gūrkan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 116K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 154K
  • ISIceland1 in 351K

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.

Netherlands (measured from records)

149 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
9 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 116K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GūrkanLatin(measured from records)
ГурканCyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gūrkan 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 Gūrkan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands1491 in 116K149——
PL Poland521 in 736K52——
DK Denmark381 in 154K38——
SE Sweden31 in 3.4M41——
MD Moldova21 in 1.7M2—1
IS Iceland11 in 351K1——

149 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); e-services.md — living population register; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

Gūrkan is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish given name27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Germany, France, United States

    Languages: Turkish, German, English

    Also written Gürkan, Gurkan, Guerkan, G'Ürkan, Ğürkan

2 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Gūrkan 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

Is Gūrkan a male or female name?
Gūrkan 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 Gūrkan have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 149 people named Gūrkan, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Gūrkan most common?
Gūrkan is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 116 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Gūrkan?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 149 people named Gūrkan, about 1 in 116 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, “Gūrkan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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