Doğan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: hawk, falcon, peregrine falcon
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/doan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Doğan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common surname.
- TRTürkiye1 in 169(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 1.4K
- USUnited States1 in 194K
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 (measured from records)
- #788 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 185 (measured from records)
- 1 in 169 (inferred from the name graph)
485,906 people, 2025
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Dogan in US United States, CH Switzerland.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
hawk, falcon, peregrine falcon
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Doğan 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 | #12 | 485,906 | 1 in 169 | 486K | Doğan | 153 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | 38 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 1,713 | 1 in 194K | 1.9K | Dogan | 185 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | listed | Doğan | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | #628 | 1,436 | 1 in 5.9K | 1.4K | Dogan | 48 |
| CY Cyprus | #31 | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Doğan | 18 |
485,906 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used surnames, 2025. 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: TÜİK NIP — most used surnames; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Doğan 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 Turkish, 1. Doğan, dünyaya gelen.2. Kartalgillerden, alıştırılarak kuş avında kullanılan, yırtıcı bir kuş.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Azerbaijani, subject non-past participle of doğmaq
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)
- Rıza Doğanb. 1931TRTurkish wrestler (1931–2004)
- Aydın Doğanb. 1936TRTurkish businessperson (born 1936)
- Çetin Doğanb. 1940TRTurkish general and statesperson (born 1940)
- Ahmed Doğanb. 1954BGTurkish-Bulgarian statesperson (born 1954)
- Aynur Doğanb. 1975TRTurkish singer of Kurdish ancestry (born 1975)
- Mustafa Doğanb. 1976TRTurkish-German association football player (born 1976)
- Turgay Doğanb. 1984TRTurkish volleyball player (born 1984)
- Önder Doğanb. 1984NLDutch rapper of Turkish descent
- Onur Doğanb. 1987TRTurkish and Taiwanese footballer
- Zehra Doğanb. 1989TRTurkish journalist of Kurdish ancestry (born 1989)
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 18 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used surnames | 2025 | 486K | #12 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used surnames | 2024 | 484K | #12 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used surnames | 2023 | 482K | #12 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used surnames | 2022 | 480K | #12 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used surnames | 2021 | 476K | #12 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used surnames | 2020 | 473K | #12 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used surnames | 2019 | 469K | #12 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used surnames | 2018 | 464K | #12 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Doğan mean, and where does it come from?
- hawk, falcon, peregrine falcon Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Doğan?
- A machine transcription gives /doan/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Doğan have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 486 thousand people named Doğan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled doğan.
- Where is Doğan most common?
- Doğan is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 169 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Doğan?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 485,906 people named Doğan in 2025, about 1 in 169 residents.
- How common is Doğan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Doğan is the 12th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Doğan” — the 12th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.