Bican
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Cansız
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/bid͡ʒˈan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bican is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 36K(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 24K
- SKSlovakia1 in 37K
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)
- Record sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- 1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Cansız.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bican 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.
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: MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Bican 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 Galician, third-person plural present indicative of bicar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, a surname transferred from the place name
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)- Josef Bicanb. 1913ATAustrian-Czech footballer (1913–2001)
- Pierre Bicanb. 1921FRFrench association football player (1921-2013)
- Ivan Bicanb. 1948CZCzech soccer player
- Karel Bicanb. 1951CZCzechoslovak Czechoslovak hussites bishop, priest of Czechoslovak hussites and priest (1951-2019)
- Tomáš Bicanb. 1973CZCzech photographer
- Ana Maria Bicanb. 1980RORomanian artistic gymnast
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 439 | #3,512 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 438 | #3,225 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 166 | #112,515 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 162 | #109,258 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 158 | #104,819 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 17 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Bican?
- A machine transcription gives /bid͡ʒˈan/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Bican mean?
- Recorded meaning: Cansız.
- In which country does Bican have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Bican in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bican.
- Where is Bican most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bican is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 24 thousand people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bican?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 439 people named Bican, about 1 in 24 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/bicanThe 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, “Bican”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.