Kuran
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Qur'an
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kuɾan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kuran is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 15K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 32K
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
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Qur'an
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kuran 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.
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Kuran is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, genitive singular of kura
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In srb, shaman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tbk, rain
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In poz-wmp-pro, scab
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Breton, soigner
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)
- Ahmet Bedevi Kuranb. 1886TRTurkish statesperson (1884–1966)
- Irena Kuran-Boguckab. 1925PLPolish translator
- Aptullah Kuranb. 1927TRTurkish architect (1927–2002)
- Alp Kuranb. 1929TRTurkish statesperson (1929–2006)
- Ercüment Kuranb. 1931TRTurkish historian (1931–2009)
- Nazif Kuranb. 1945TRTurkish boxer (born 1945)
- Timur Kuranb. 1954USAmerican academic
- Manuel KuranSIresearcher
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 31 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 422 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 422 | #7,825 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 420 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 420 | #7,728 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 286 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 275 | #2,957 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 205 | #95,461 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 193 | #94,730 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 158 | #104,819 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 9 | #85,699 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 9 | #18,759 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Kuran mean, and where does it come from?
- Qur'an Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kuran?
- A machine transcription gives /kuɾan/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Kuran have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.7 thousand people named Kuran in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kuran.
- How common is the name Kuran?
- In Poland, the national register counted 842 people named Kuran in 2026, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kuranThe 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, “Kuran”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.