Algan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Alan, fetheden, fatih
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aɫɡan̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Algan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 66K
- SDSudan≈1 in 117K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is 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(measured from records)
Alan, fetheden, fatih.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Algan 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 | #879 | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Algan | 57 |
| SD Sudan | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 117K | — | Algan | 2 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 291K | — | Algan | 12 |
| FR France | — | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 926K | 11 | Algan | 1 |
| IN India | — | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 20M | 1 | Algan | 2 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 156K | — | Algan | 2 |
| AR Argentina | — | 54 | 1 in 842K | 54 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Algan | 5 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 234K | listed | — | 1 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)
Algan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Estonian, first-person singular present indicative of algama
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Nurettin Münşi Alganb. 1878TRTurkish scientist (1878–1940)
- Nicole Alganb. 1924FRFrench painter (1925-1986)
- Beklan Alganb. 1933TRTurkish actor (1933–2010)
- Ayla Alganb. 1936TRTurkish actor and singer (1937–2024)
- Tufan Alganb. 1939TRTurkish judge (born 1939)
- Refik Alganb. 1952TRTurkish writer (born 1952)
- Zeynep Sibel Alganb. 1955TRTurkish diplomat (born 1955)
- Oya Alganb. 1961TRTurkish oceanographer (born 1961)
- Yann Alganb. 1974FRFrench economist
- Berkan Alganb. 1977DEGerman association football player
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 54 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 5 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #163,601 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 2 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Algan?
- A machine transcription gives /aɫɡan̪/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Algan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Alan, fetheden, fatih.
- In which country does Algan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.4 thousand people named Algan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled algan.
- How common is the name Algan?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 54 people named Algan, about 1 in 842 thousand residents.
- How common is Algan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Algan is the 879th most common surname of 619,652 surnames 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/alganThe 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, “Algan” — the 879th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.