Kaan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: superseded spelling of kağan
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kaˈan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kaan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 11K
- THThailand≈1 in 8.7Kas กานต์
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kaan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈50,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
19 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled กานต์ in TH Thailand and Gan in CN China.
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)
superseded spelling of kağan
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kaan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #358 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Kaan | 149 |
| TH Thailand | #481 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | 1 | กานต์ | 136 |
| US United States | — | 7,018as Karan | 1 in 47K | 3.5K | Kaan | 181 |
| CN China | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 306K | — | Gan | 8 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | 793 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,564 | 1 in 11K | 1.6K | Kaan | 51 |
| CY Cyprus | #355 | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Kaan | 20 |
| GY Guyana | — | 142as Karan | 1 in 5.3K | 142 | — | — |
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: The page provides a list of auspicious names for baby boys along with their meanings, published by Enfa.; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Kaan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In blz, to eat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gil, near, not far from, close to (in time or space)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Dutch, a small boat used on inland waters
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In frm, khan (ruler or sovereign)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In msk, to eat (something)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Kaan Tangözeb. 1973TRTurkish singer (born 1973)
- Kaan Taşanerb. 1979TRTurkish actor (born 1979)
- Kaan Müjdecib. 1980TRTurkish film director and producer (born 1980)
- Kaan Urgancıoğlub. 1981TRTurkish actor (born 1981)
- Kaan Kigen Özbilenb. 1986KEKenyan-born Turkish long-distance runner (born 1986)
- Kaan Ayhanb. 1994DETurkish association football player (born 1994)
- Kaan Kairinenb. 1998FIFinnish association football player
- Kaan Çalışkanerb. 1999DETurkish-German association football player (born 1999)
- Kaan Güldürb. 2008TRTurkish-Australian actor
- Yagiz Kaan Erdogmusb. 2011TRTurkish chess player (born 2011)
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 76 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 1.6K | #804 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 904 | #2,227 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 851 | #13,890 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 793 | #175 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 36 | #177 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 35 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8 | #13,890 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Kaan?
- A machine transcription gives /kaˈan/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Kaan mean, and where does it come from?
- superseded spelling of kağan Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Kaan?
- In the etymology graph, Hakan and Kağan are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kaan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 50 thousand people named Kaan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaan.
- Is Kaan a male or female name?
- Kaan 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.
- How common is the name Kaan?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,564 people named Kaan, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Kaan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Kaan is the 358th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kaan?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kaanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Kaan” — the 358th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.