Tsurkan
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tsɝkən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tsurkan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country. In Moldova it is the 72nd most common surname.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 5.3Kas Цуркан(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 22Kas Цуркан
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 51Kas Цуркан
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tsurkan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,300 named Цуркан, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Цуркан in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more and Turcan in PL Poland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tsurkan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #479 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Цуркан | 49 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Цуркан | 141 |
| PL Poland | — | 602 | 1 in 64K | 311 | Turcan | 4 |
| MD Moldova | #72 | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | 1 | Цуркан | 11 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 51K | 162 | Цуркан | 31 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 32 | Tsurkan | 11 |
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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); e-services.md — living population register; the ee-stat-nimed 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lyudmyla Tsurkanb. 1937UAUkrainian opera singer and music educator
- Mikhail V. TsurkanUSscientist
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 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 311 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 311 | #10,705 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 291 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 291 | #11,252 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 32 | #3,288 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 31 | #3,467 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Tsurkan?
- A machine transcription gives /tsɝkən/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Tsurkan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.3 thousand people named Цуркан in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Tsurkan?
- In Poland, the national register counted 602 people named Tsurkan in 2026, about 1 in 64 thousand residents.
- How common is Tsurkan compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Tsurkan is the 479th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tsurkan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tsurkanThe 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, “Tsurkan” — the 479th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.