Atacan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: "Sevgili baba" anlamında kullanılan bir ad
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ataʒan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Atacan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 28K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 840K
- CACanada≈1 in 2.5M
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
- 47 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
"Sevgili baba" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Atacan 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 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Atacan | 47 |
| US United States | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 10M | listed | Atacan | 27 |
| CA Canada | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Atacan | 10 |
| CH Switzerland | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | Atacan | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 7.7M | — | Atacan | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | 5 | 1 in 3.5M | 14 | — | 10 |
| BE Belgium | 4 | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | — | 2 |
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 us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Atacan 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 Galician, third-person plural present indicative of atacar
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)
- Nihat Atacanb. 1942TRTurkish association football player (born 1942)
- Yavuz Atacanb. 1945TRTurkish actor and director (born 1945)
- Serdar Atacanb. 1981TRSerdar Atacan is a businessman and Turkish film producer, actor. (born 1981)
- Yağmur Atacanb. 1983TRTurkish actor (born 1983)
- Melih AtacanTRTurkish association football player
- Muzaffer AtacanTRTurkish 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 19 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 5 | #78,428 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #110,058 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Atacan?
- A machine transcription gives /ataʒan/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Atacan mean?
- Recorded meaning: "Sevgili baba" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.
- In which country does Atacan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Atacan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled atacan.
- How common is the name Atacan?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 10 people named Atacan in 2024, about 1 in 840 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/atacanThe 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, “Atacan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.