Tufan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Nuh Peygamber zamanında yağan ve bütün dünyayı su altında bırakan şiddetli yağmur.2
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: CBG Familienamenbank, 2007
/tuː.faːˈnɯ/(recorded in a dictionary) Turkish · from Wiktionary
Tufan is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 5.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 7.3Kfew records
- ATAustria≈1 in 68K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)1. Nuh Peygamber zamanında yağan ve bütün dünyayı su altında bırakan şiddetli yağmur.2. Şiddetli yağmur.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tufan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 73K | 1 | Tufan | 25 |
| TR Türkiye | #915 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Tufan | 96 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 17 | Tufan | 12 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Tufan | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 185 | 1 in 93K | 185 | Tufan | 24 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 68K | 32 | — | — |
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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)Tufan is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Azerbaijani, storm, tempest characterized by substantial, heavy rainfall or snowfall
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Obsolete spelling of typhoon.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, cracher
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
In Romanian, TUFÁN, tufani, s. m. 1. Specie de stejar (Quercus pubescens). 2. Tufar. 3. (Pop.) Ciomag, bâtă.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)- Tufan Miñnullinb. 1935RUTatar writer and member of State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan (1935-2012)
- Toofanb. 1946IRnot in their usual nameIranian composer and singer (1946-2012)
- Tufan Buzpınarb. 1961TRTurkish politician (born 1961)
- Tufan Erhürmanb. 1970CYPresident of Northern Cyprus
- Kıraçb. 1972TRnot in their usual nameTurkish musician (born 1972)
- Tofan Piranib. 1975SEnot in their usual nameIranian-Swedish kickboxer
- Tufan Ersözb. 1980TRTurkish basketball player (born 1980)
- Tufan Tosunoğlub. 1988DETurkish association football player (born 1988)
- Tufan Kellecib. 1993TRTurkish association football player (born 1993)
- Tufan Özbozkurtb. 1993TRTurkish association football player (born 1993)
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)38 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 74 | #23,958 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #8,749 |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- 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 Tufan?
- In Turkish /tuː.faːˈnɯ/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Tufan a male or female name?
- Tufan is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- What does the name Tufan mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Nuh Peygamber zamanında yağan ve bütün dünyayı su altında bırakan şiddetli yağmur.2.
- In which country does Tufan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Tufan in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tufan.
- How common is the name Tufan?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 185 people named Tufan, about 1 in 93 thousand residents.
- How common is Tufan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Tufan is the 915th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tufanThe 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, “Tufan” — the 915th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.