Tarkan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: 1. İslâmlıktan önce verilmiş vekil, vezir, bey gibi san
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tarkˈan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tarkan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 199K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 227K
- FIFinland1 in 398K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 199K (inferred from the name graph)
87 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. İslâmlıktan önce verilmiş vekil, vezir, bey gibi san. 2. Ayrıcalıklı, saygın kişi.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tarkan 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.
87 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); e-services.md — living population 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)
Tarkan 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 tarkka
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)
- Tarkan Tüzmenb. 1968TRTurkish actor and singer (born 1968)
- Tarkan Altınokb. 1970TRTurkish singer (born 1970)
- Tarkan Gözübüyükb. 1970TRTurkish guitarist (born 1970)
- Tarkan Çakırb. 1971TRTurkish musician (born 1971)
- Tarkanb. 1972TRTurkish singer (born 1972)
- Tarkan Mustafab. 1973GBEngland footballer (born 1973)
- Tarkan Alkanb. 1974TRTurkish association football player (born 1974)
- MOKb. 1976DEnot in their usual nameGerman rapper
- Tarkan Serbestb. 1994ATTurkish-Austrian association football player (born 1994)
- Tarkan Dospilactor
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 34 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 87 | #4,801 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 78 | #9,211 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 45 | #14,590 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 40 | #8,127 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 28 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 28 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 26 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 26 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 26 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 26 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 26 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #19,636 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- 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
- Is Tarkan a male or female name?
- Tarkan 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.
- How do you pronounce Tarkan?
- A machine transcription gives /tarkˈan/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Tarkan mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. İslâmlıktan önce verilmiş vekil, vezir, bey gibi san.
- In which country does Tarkan have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 87 people named Tarkan, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tarkan most common?
- Tarkan is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 199 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tarkan?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 87 people named Tarkan, about 1 in 199 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/tarkanThe 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, “Tarkan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.