Merdan

given name · Latin script

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

/mˈerdɑn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Merdan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Turkmenistan than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common given name.

rarermore common
  • TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 128(inferred from the name graph)
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 32K
  • AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 33K

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.

Turkmenistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈43,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
91 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 128 (inferred from the name graph)

Turkmenistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MerdanLatin(measured from records)
МерданCyrillic(measured from records)

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)

recorded in Turkish

Erkekler, yiğitler, mertler.

Sources 1

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

Where in the world(measured from records)

Merdan 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 Merdan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TM Turkmenistan#2≈43,000 est.≈1 in 128146KMerdan24
CN China—≈4,300 est.≈1 in 323K—Merdan4
TR Türkiye—≈2,600 est.≈1 in 32K—Merdan47
UZ Uzbekistan—≈400 est.≈1 in 77K—Merdan6
AZ Azerbaijan—≈310 est.≈1 in 33K—Merdan9
PL Poland—1381 in 277K138—1
AT Austria—≈66 est.≈1 in 135K48——

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: This page lists the most common male names in Turkmenistan along with their frequencies.; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)

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

  • Bulgarian given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Turkmenistan, Türkiye, Russia

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian

    Also written Мердан, Merd̂an

39 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Merdan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Kurdish, The brave, the valiant

    as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary

  • In Turkish, Erkekler, yiğitler, mertler.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name 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)

  • Erdal Merdanb. 1949TRTurkish-German actor and theater director (1949–2010)

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)

InformalHi Merdan,

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 27 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Merdan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026138#1,667
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—126#1,675
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)202448#1,820
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)20241#2,948

Reference works 4

  • 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)
  • Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)

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 Merdan?
A machine transcription gives /mˈerdɑn/ (IPA) for Turkmen.
Is Merdan a male or female name?
Merdan 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 Merdan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 43 thousand people named Merdan in Turkmenistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled merdan.
How common is the name Merdan?
In Poland, the national register counted 138 people named Merdan in 2026, about 1 in 277 thousand residents.
How common is Merdan compared with other names?
In Turkmenistan, Merdan is the 2nd most common given name of 38,989 given names recorded there.

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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, “Merdan” — the 2nd most common given name in Turkmenistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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