Türkan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Türkan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 627(inferred from the name graph)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 4.3K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 3.4K
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
- 45 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 627 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Koruyucu, muhafız.
Sources 2
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Türkan 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 | #111 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 627 | #99 | Türkan | 45 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #274 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | 161 | Türkan | 13 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 20 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | #193 | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Türkan | 10 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Türkan | 6 |
| DK Denmark | — | 151 | 1 in 39K | 151 | — | — |
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 tr-tuik-child-stats register; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Türkân Örs Baştuğb. 1900TRTurkish statesperson (1900–1975)
- Türkan Radob. 1915TRTurkish jurist (1915–2007)
- Türkan Akyolb. 1928TRTurkish physician and statesperson (1928–2017)
- Türkan Saylanb. 1935TRTurkish physician and writer (1935–2009)
- Türkân Şorayb. 1945TRTurkish actor (born 1945)
- Türkan Dağoğlub. 1945TRTurkish statesperson (born 1945)
- Lale Yavaşb. 1978CHnot in their usual nameTurkish-Swiss actor (born 1978)
- Türkan Erişmişb. 1984TRTurkish middle-distance runner (born 1984)
- Turkan Mamedyarovab. 1989AZAzerbaijani chess player
- Türkân AyanTRTurkish psychologist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 13 countries.
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Is Türkan a male or female name?
- Türkan is a female 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 Türkan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 131 thousand people named Türkan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled türkan.
- How common is the name Türkan?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 151 people named Türkan, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
- How common is Türkan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Türkan is the 111th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%C3%BCrkanThe 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, “Türkan” — the 111th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.