Orkun
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɔrkˈʊn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Orkun is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 28K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 84K
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
- 108 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Orkun 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 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Orkun | 108 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 84K | listed | — | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 82 | 1 in 211K | 82 | Orkun | 23 |
| US United States | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Orkun | 91 |
| BE Belgium | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 156K | — | Orkun | 7 |
| AT Austria | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 143K | 13 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Orkun | 7 |
| EE Estonia | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 88K | listed | — | 4 |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register; the az-justice-names register. 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)
Orkun 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 Finnish, genitive singular of orkku
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)
- Orkun Ertenerb. 1966TRTurkish-German screenwriter (born 1966)
- Orkun Uçarb. 1969TRTurkish journalist (born 1969)
- Orkun Yılmazb. 1974TRTurkish actor (born 1974)
- Orkun Uşakb. 1980TRTurkish association football player (born 1980)
- Orkun Okumuşb. 1993TRTurkish association football player (born 1993)
- Orkun Özdemirb. 1995TRTurkish association football player (born 1995)
- Orkun Işıtmakb. 1996TRTurkish YouTuber
- Orkun Kökcüb. 2000NLTurkish-Dutch association football player (born 2000)
- Orkun Efe Alumertb. 2002TRchess player
- Orkun YurttaşTRTurkish basketball referee
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.
Reference works 4
- 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)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
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 Orkun?
- A machine transcription gives /ɔrkˈʊn/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Orkun a male or female name?
- Orkun is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Orkun have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.1 thousand people named Orkun in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled orkun.
- How common is the name Orkun?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 82 people named Orkun, about 1 in 211 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Orkun?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/orkunThe 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, “Orkun”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.