Turčan

Name: Turčan: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries

/turt͡ʃan/(machine-generated) Slovak · model-generated

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Turčan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Turcu + -an. Turčan is also written Туркан in Cyrillic.

XKKosovo≈1 in 210K(inferred from the name graph)
DKDenmark1 in 39Kas Türkan
MKNorth Macedonia1 in 64Kas Туркан

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 Turčan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Denmark (measured from records)
: 2 (measured from records)
Record sources: 14 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 208K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Turčan in other scripts: Latin and Cyrillic

TürkanTurčan in Latin

ТурканTurčan in Cyrillic

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Turcan

Locally spelled Turcan in US United States, NL Netherlands and Türkan in BG Bulgaria.

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.

How to pronounce Turčan

Slovak:/turt͡ʃan/(machine-generated) model-generated
Czech:/turt͡ʃan/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

From Turcu + -an.

Cited for this meaning 2

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

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Turčan 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 Turčan is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
DK Denmark	—	151as Türkan	1 in 39K	151	—	—
SE Sweden	—	145as Türkan	1 in 70K	145	—	1
US United States	—	137as Turkan	1 in 2.4M	262	Turcan	11
NL Netherlands	—	82as Türkan	1 in 211K	82	Turcan	2
PL Poland	—	34as Turkan	1 in 1.1M	139	—	—
MK North Macedonia	—	33as Туркан	1 in 64K	25	—	2
XK Kosovo	—	≈8 est.	≈1 in 208K	73	—	2
BG Bulgaria	#888	—	—	—	Türkan	11

151 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); State Statistical Office — living population 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 names spelled this way

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

Russian surname49 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, United States
Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, English
Also written Цуркан, Tsurkan, Turcan, Тсуркан, Curkan
English surname16 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada
Languages: English, German, Dutch
Also written Turcan, Türcan, Țurcan, Ţurcan, Tuercan
a separate name5 spellings in the group
Also written Türcan, Țurcan, Ţurcan, Turcan
Italian surname5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Italy
Also written Turcan, Țurcan, Ţurcan, Türcan

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.

Notable people with this name

Pavel Turčanb. 1892RSSlovak protestant priest and writer in Serbia (1892-1965)
Vladimír Turčanb. 1952SKSlovak archaeologist
Samuel Dežo TurčanSKSlovak writer

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

FormalPoštovani Turčan,Dear Turčan, (English)

InformalPoštovani Turčan,Hello, (English)

Evidence

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Turčan 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 Turčan mean, and where does it come from?: From Turcu + -an. Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Turčan?: It depends on the language: in Slovak /turt͡ʃan/; in Czech /turt͡ʃan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people named Turčan?: In Denmark, the national register counted about 151 people named Türkan, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Sweden, United States, Netherlands and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Turčan?: In Denmark, the national register counted 151 people named Türkan, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
How common is Turčan compared with other names?: In Bulgaria, Turčan is the 888th most common given name of 22,906 given names recorded there.

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tur%C4%8Dan

The 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 2026-10-13 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, “Turčan” — ranked 1195th in Denmark (Danmarks Statistik). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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