Kayhan
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kajhˈan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kayhan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: bk. Kayıhan.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 3.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 100K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 29K
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)
- Sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
bk. Kayıhan
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kayhan 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 | #425 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Kayhan | 80 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Kayhan | 65 |
| SE Sweden | — | 243 | 1 in 42K | 243 | Kayhan | 30 |
| NO Norway | — | 184 | 1 in 30K | 184 | Kayhan | 17 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 173 | 1 in 100K | 173 | Kayhan | 16 |
| DK Denmark | — | 88 | 1 in 67K | 88 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Kayhan | 5 |
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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Ahmet Kayhanb. 1951TRTurkish businessperson (born 1951)
- Kemal Kayhanb. 1983TRTurkish volleyball player (born 1983)
- Coşkun Kayhanb. 1986TRTurkish association football player (born 1986)
- Sultan Kayhanb. 1988SESwedish politician
- Tanju Kayhanb. 1989ATTurkish association football player (born 1989)
- Servet KayhanTRTurkish researcher
- Handan KayhanTRTurkish researcher
- Cenk KayhanTRTurkish researcher
- Hünkâr KayhanTRTurkish academic
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 35 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 243 | #3,539 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 184 | #8,599 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 173 | #11,956 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 88 | #6,231 |
Reference works 5
- 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)
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 Kayhan?
- A machine transcription gives /kajhˈan/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Kayhan mean?
- Recorded meaning: bk. Kayıhan
- In which country does Kayhan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Kayhan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kayhan.
- How common is the name Kayhan?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 243 people named Kayhan, about 1 in 42 thousand residents.
- How common is Kayhan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Kayhan is the 425th 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/kayhanThe 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, “Kayhan” — the 425th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.