Tanju
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Türk hükümdarlarına Çinliler tarafından verilen san
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tanʒˈʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tanju is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 13K
- ATAustria≈1 in 66K
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
- 73 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Türk hükümdarlarına Çinliler tarafından verilen san.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tanju 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 | — | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Tanju | 73 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 87K | 5 | Tanju | 6 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 66K | 2 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | #913 | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Tanju | 8 |
| US United States | — | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | listed | Tanju | 60 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 53 | 1 in 326K | 53 | Tanju | 11 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 187K | — | Tanju | 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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)
Tanju 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 Czech, accusative singular of Tanja
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)
- Tanju Gürsub. 1938TRTurkish film director (1938–2016)
- Tanju Okanb. 1938TRTurkish singer (1938–1996)
- Tanju Korelb. 1944TRTurkish actor (1944–2005)
- Tanju Çolakb. 1963TRTurkish association football player (born 1963)
- Tanju Babacanb. 1968TRTurkish fashion designer (born 1968)
- Tanju Yavuzb. 1979TRTurkish association football player (born 1979)
- Tanju Şahinb. 1988TRTurkish association football player (born 1988)
- Tanju Kayhanb. 1989ATTurkish association football player (born 1989)
- Tanju Öztürkb. 1989DETurkish association football player (born 1989)
- Tanju KayaTRTurkish paleontologist
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 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 53 | #6,449 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 46 | #12,438 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2005 | 2 | #1,065 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2005 | 1 | #2,146 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 1998 | 1 | #1,314 |
Reference works 3
- 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 Tanju?
- A machine transcription gives /tanʒˈʊ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Tanju mean?
- Recorded meaning: Türk hükümdarlarına Çinliler tarafından verilen san.
- Is Tanju a male or female name?
- Tanju 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 Tanju have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.1 thousand people named Tanju in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tanju.
- How common is the name Tanju?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 53 people named Tanju, about 1 in 326 thousand residents.
- How common is Tanju compared with other names?
- In Cyprus, Tanju is the 913th most common given name of 8,840 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tanju?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tanjuThe 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, “Tanju” — the 913th most common given name in Cyprus. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.