Kalkan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: shield
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kaɫkan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kalkan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 49K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 65K
- SESweden1 in 67K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- 1 in 49K (inferred from the name graph)
224 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
shield
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kalkan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 224 | 1 in 77K | 224 | Kalkan | 9 |
| SE Sweden | 152 | 1 in 67K | 152 | Kalkan | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 129 | 1 in 65K | 129 | Kalkan | 6 |
| DK Denmark | 119 | 1 in 49K | 119 | — | — |
| US United States | 107 | 1 in 3.1M | 148 | Kalkan | 81 |
| NO Norway | 70 | 1 in 78K | 70 | — | 2 |
224 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Kalkan 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. Ok, kılıç vb.nden korunmak için savaşçıların kullandığı korunmalık.2. Koruyucu
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Serbo-Croatian, 1° štit; 2° osobita vrsta krova sa dvije strehe na kući; 3° kapa za ženske
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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)
- Erdal Kalkanb. 1946TRTurkish statesperson (born 1946)
- Emir Kalkanb. 1948TRTurkish writer (1948–2015)
- Duran Kalkanb. 1954TRSenior commander of the Kurdistan Workers' Party
- Gülenay Kalkanb. 1960TRTurkish actor (born 1960)
- Ersin Kalkanb. 1961TRTurkish journalist (born 1961)
- Nezb. 1979TRnot in their usual nameTurkish singer (born 1979)
- Murat Kalkanb. 1986TRTurkish association football player (born 1986)
- Fuat Kalkanb. 1988TRTurkish association football player (born 1988)
- Berat Kalkanb. 2003TRTurkish-Macedonian association football player (born 2003)
- Erol KalkanTRTurkish researcher
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 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 224 | #9,286 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 152 | #5,179 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 148 | #122,574 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 129 | #9,046 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 119 | #4,601 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 107 | #152,628 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 70 | #20,591 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Kalkan mean, and where does it come from?
- shield Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kalkan?
- A machine transcription gives /kaɫkan/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Kalkan have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 224 people named Kalkan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kalkan.
- Where is Kalkan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kalkan is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 49 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kalkan?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 224 people named Kalkan in 2007, about 1 in 77 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kalkan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kalkanThe 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, “Kalkan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.