Ersan

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Yiğitliğiyle ad yapmış kimse

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ersan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 7.7K(inferred from the name graph)
  • XKKosovo≈1 in 4.2K
  • CYCyprus≈1 in 7K

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)

≈11,000 people, est.

Sources
85 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Kosovo, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Turkish

Yiğitliğiyle ad yapmış kimse.

Sources 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ersan 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 Ersan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye—≈11,000 est.≈1 in 7.7K—Ersan85
ID Indonesia—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 201K—Ersan59
XK Kosovo—≈470 est.≈1 in 4.2K229—3
AT Austria—≈190 est.≈1 in 47K19——
BE Belgium—≈190 est.≈1 in 63K8Ersan14
CY Cyprus#727≈180 est.≈1 in 7K—Ersan10
SE Sweden—711 in 144K71Ersan9

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: ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ersan is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Türkiye, Austria

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Erşan

  • French given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Türkiye

    Also written Erşan, Ersân, Ërsãn

  • Spanish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Philippines, United States, Nicaragua

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Erşan, Ersán, Ersàn

  • Bulgarian given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Serbia, Türkiye, Croatia

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian

    Also written Ерсан, Erşan, Eršan

  • Danish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Sweden, Norway

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Erşan

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, India

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Erşan

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Erşan

  • Russian given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Türkiye, Kazakhstan, China

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Эрсан, Ерсан, Erşan, Ёрсан

40 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Ersan Barkın, b. 1940Ersan Saner, b. 1966Ersan Özer, b. 1969Ersan Doğu, b. 1972Ersan Özseven, b. 1983Ersan Tekkan, b. 1985Ersan Ilyasova, b. 1987Ersan Gülüm, b. 1987Ersan Keleş, b. 1987

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 40 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Ersan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—15#30,208
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20088#78,867

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 Ersan mean?
Recorded meaning: Yiğitliğiyle ad yapmış kimse.
Is Ersan a male or female name?
Ersan 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.
In which country does Ersan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Ersan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ersan.
How common is the name Ersan?
In Sweden, the national register counted 71 people named Ersan, about 1 in 144 thousand residents.
How common is Ersan compared with other names?
In Cyprus, Ersan is the 727th most common given name of 8,840 given names 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, “Ersan” — the 727th most common given name in Cyprus. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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