Açan

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Açan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 23K(inferred from the name graph)
  • UGUganda≈1 in 17K
  • GTGuatemala≈1 in 65K

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)

≈3,600 people, est.

Sources
35 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)

Uganda, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Acan in GT Guatemala, PH Philippines, SY Syria and 2 more.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Açan 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 Açan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye≈3,600 est.≈1 in 23K—Açan35
UG Uganda≈2,500 est.≈1 in 17K1—3
GT Guatemala≈260 est.≈1 in 65K—Acan7
SY Syria≈150 est.≈1 in 130K—Acan2
PH Philippines≈130 est.≈1 in 838K—Acan7
ES Spain261 in 1.9M26Acan14
CY Cyprus≈19 est.≈1 in 68K—Acan4

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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Parliament of Uganda MP Database — 11th Parliament sitting members. 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)

Açan is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Philippines, Türkiye

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Acan, Acán, Acãn, Acañ

  • Croatian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Türkiye

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Acan, Aćan, Ацан

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Acan, Acán

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye

    Also written Acan, Acãn

  • Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ecuador, Türkiye, Philippines

    Also written Acan, Acán

18 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)

Açan 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 gag, when

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

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

In which country does Açan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Açan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled açan.
How common is the name Açan?
In Spain, the national register counted 26 people named Açan, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.

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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, “Açan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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