Turan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Turancıların dünyadaki bütün Türkleri birleştirerek kurmayı amaçladıkları ülkenin adı.2 (TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 34 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/tuɾˈan/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
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. Turan is also written თურან in Georgian.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 440(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 2.1Kfew records
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 5.4Kfew records
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 443 (inferred from the name graph)
≈190,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Turan in other scripts: Georgian
(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.
How to pronounce Turan
- Turkish:/tuɾˈan/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)1. Turancıların dünyadaki bütün Türkleri birleştirerek kurmayı amaçladıkları ülkenin adı.2. Türklerin Orta Asya'daki en eski yurtları.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Turan is found
(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 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 443 | register #84 | Turan | 142 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | 1.8K | Turan | 51 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 66K | 159 | — | 3 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | 49 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 672 | 1 in 495K | 924 | Turan | 180 |
| DK Denmark | — | 667 | 1 in 8.8K | 667 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | #175 | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | 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)- Kenneth Turanb. 1946USAmerican film critic
- Arda Turanb. 1987TRTurkish association football player (born 1987)
- Ayça Ayşin Turanb. 1992TRTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1992)
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)62 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 34 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Turan?
- In Turkish /tuɾˈan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Turan mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Turancıların dünyadaki bütün Türkleri birleştirerek kurmayı amaçladıkları ülkenin adı.2.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Turan?
- Mondonomo estimates about 193 thousand people named Turan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled turan. After it come Azerbaijan, France, Austria and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Turan?
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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 2026-10-13.