Karahan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Tarihte bazı kavimlerde hanlara verilen san (TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/kaɾahˈan/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Karahan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 38K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 50K
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
- 109 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈56,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Qaraxan in AZ Azerbaijan.
How to pronounce Karahan
- Turkish:/kaɾahˈan/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Tarihte bazı kavimlerde hanlara verilen san.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where the surname Karahan is found
(measured from records)Karahan 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 | #189 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Karahan | 109 |
| FR France | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 200K | 83 | Karahan | 1 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 7 | Qaraxan | 7 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 4 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 167 | 1 in 50K | 167 | Karahan | 12 |
| CY Cyprus | #969 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | Karahan | 12 |
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; 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)Karahan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Cebuano, the hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)
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)- Saim Osman Karahanb. 1939TRTurkish writer (1939–2015)
- Hakan Karahanb. 1960TRTurkish actor (born 1960)
- Pelin Karahanb. 1984TRTurkish actor (born 1984)
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Karahan?
- In Turkish /kaɾahˈan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Karahan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Tarihte bazı kavimlerde hanlara verilen san.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Karahan?
- Mondonomo estimates about 56 thousand people named Karahan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karahan. After it come France, Azerbaijan, Austria and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Karahan?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 167 people named Karahan in 2024, about 1 in 50 thousand residents.
- How common is Karahan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Karahan is the 189th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karahanThe 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, “Karahan” — the 189th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.