Karacan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Esmer kimse
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/kaɾad͡ʒˈan/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Karacan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 4.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 150K
- FIFinland1 in 223K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 80 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Esmer kimse.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Karacan 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 | #486 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Karacan | 80 |
| FR France | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 574K | 18 | Karacan | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 117 | 1 in 148K | 117 | Karacan | 19 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 55 | 1 in 153K | 55 | Karacan | 6 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Karacan | 5 |
| DK Denmark | — | 39 | 1 in 150K | 39 | — | — |
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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Şerafettin Karacanb. 1892TRTurkish statesperson (1892–1986)
- Ali Naci Karacanb. 1896TRTurkish journalist and publisher (1896–1955)
- Ercüment Karacanb. 1921TRTurkish journalist (1921–1989)
- Alpaslan Karacanb. 1943TRTurkish statesperson (born 1943)
- Ali İhsan Karacanb. 1951TRTurkish businessperson (born 1951)
- Harun Karacanb. 1966TRTurkish statesperson (born 1966)
- Elvan İşeri Karacanb. 1968TRTurkish psychiatrist (born 1968)
- Okan Karacanb. 1977TRTurkish actor (born 1977)
- Jem Karacanb. 1989GBTurkish association football player (born 1989)
- Ismail KaracanTRresearcher
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 117 | #16,756 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 55 | #17,311 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 39 | #13,122 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Karacan?
- In Turkish /kaɾad͡ʒˈan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Karacan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Esmer kimse.
- In which country does Karacan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Karacan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karacan.
- How common is the name Karacan?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 117 people named Karacan in 2007, about 1 in 148 thousand residents.
- How common is Karacan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Karacan is the 486th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karacanThe 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, “Karacan” — the 486th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.