Turan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Turancıların dünyadaki bütün Türkleri birleştirerek kurmayı amaçladıkları ülkenin adı.2
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Turan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 34th most common surname.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 453(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 495K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 3.6K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 453 (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
1. Turancıların dünyadaki bütün Türkleri birleştirerek kurmayı amaçladıkları ülkenin adı.2. Türklerin Orta Asya'daki en eski yurtları.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Turan 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 | #34 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 453 | #84 | Turan | 142 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 1.8K | Turan | 51 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 51K | 159 | — | 3 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 49 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 672 | 1 in 495K | 924 | Turan | 180 |
| DK Denmark | — | 667 | 1 in 8.8K | 667 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | #175 | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Turan | 13 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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)
Turan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, männl. Vom. türkischer Herkunft, der von dem geografischen Namen Turan abge leitet ist, einem Tiefland Mittelasiens, unge fähr dem heutigen Turkestan entsprechend.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Filipino, to name or mention someone or something
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, »kula, zvonik, zatvor, toponim«
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
In Turkmen, Gadymy Türk ýürdy.(Iran-Turan).
as a wordturkmenkultur.com — Türkmen Adam Atlary (Turkmen personal names, Kylyç 1998)
In Romanian, TURÁN, -Ă, turani, -e, adj., s. m. și f. (Persoană) de origine turcă sau uralo-altaică.
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)
- Ali bey Huseynzadeb. 1864TRnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani and Turkish writer, doctor and university teacher (1864–1940)
- Osman Turanb. 1914TRTurkish historian and statesperson (1914–1978)
- Kenneth Turanb. 1946USAmerican film critic
- Cemil Turanb. 1947TRTurkish association football player (born 1947)
- Ali Turanb. 1983TRTurkish association football player (born 1983)
- Türkü Turanb. 1985TRTurkish actor, fashion model and singer (born 1985)
- Semra Turanb. 1985DKDanish actress
- Arda Turanb. 1987TRTurkish association football player (born 1987)
- Ayça Ayşin Turanb. 1992TRTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1992)
- Alara Turanb. 1995TRTurkish actor (born 1995)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 62 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 924 | #27,616 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 672 | #33,856 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 667 | #623 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 593 | #35,797 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 159 | — |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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)
- 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
- What does the name Turan mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Turancıların dünyadaki bütün Türkleri birleştirerek kurmayı amaçladıkları ülkenin adı.2.
- In which country does Turan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 181 thousand people named Turan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled turan.
- How common is the name Turan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 672 people named Turan in 2010, about 1 in 495 thousand residents.
- How common is Turan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Turan is the 34th most common surname of 619,652 surnames 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/turanThe 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, “Turan” — the 34th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.