Alican
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Yüce, ulu dost
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/alid͡ʒˈan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alican is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 5.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 98K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 20K
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
- 101 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Yüce, ulu dost.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alican 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 | #966 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Alican | 100 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Alican | 3 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 98K | 1 | Alican | 68 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Alican | 2 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Alican | 20 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 189 | Alican | 5 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 49K | 35 | Alican | 18 |
| US United States | — | 112 | 1 in 3M | 70 | Alican | 101 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Alican | 6 |
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 de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; 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)
- Alican Önlüb. 1967TRTurkish statesperson (born 1967)
- Alican Yücesoyb. 1982TRTurkish actor (born 1982)
- Alican Tezb. 1987TRTurkish association football player (born 1987)
- Alican Kaynarb. 1988TRTurkish yacht racer (born 1988)
- Alican Güneyb. 1989TRTurkish basketball player (born 1989)
- Alican Karadağb. 1990TRTurkish association football player (born 1990)
- Alican Aytekinb. 1990TRTurkish actor (born 1990)
- Alican Karataşb. 1991TRTurkish curler (born 1991)
- Alican Özfeslib. 1997TRTurkish association football player (born 1997)
- Alican ÜnalTRTurkish performance artist
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 31 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 4
- 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
- How do you pronounce Alican?
- A machine transcription gives /alid͡ʒˈan/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Alican a male or female name?
- Alican 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.
- What does the name Alican mean?
- Recorded meaning: Yüce, ulu dost.
- In which country does Alican have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Alican in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alican.
- How common is the name Alican?
- In the United States, the national register counted 112 people named Alican in 2020, about 1 in 3.0 million residents.
- How common is Alican compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Alican is the 966th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Alican?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alicanThe 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, “Alican” — the 966th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.