Turhan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Soylu ve seçkin kimse
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Turhan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 42K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 31K
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)
- Sources
- 123 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈49,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. Soylu ve seçkin kimse. 2. Eski Türklerde vergi ödemeyen, hükümdar huzuruna izinsiz girebilen, saygın kişi.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Turhan 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 | #199 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Turhan | 108 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Turhan | 88 |
| FR France | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 180K | 68 | Turhan | 2 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 15 | — | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 166 | 1 in 104K | 166 | Turhan | 25 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 68K | 3 | Turhan | 12 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Turhan | 12 |
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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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)
Turhan 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 turha
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)
- Mümtaz Turhanb. 1908TRTurkish psychologist (1908–1969)
- Mehmet Cahit Turhanb. 1960TRTurkish statesperson (born 1960)
- Su Turhanb. 1966TRTurkish film producer and screenwriter (born 1966)
- İbrahim Turhanb. 1968TRTurkish economist (born 1968)
- Bektaş Turhanb. 1975TRTurkish musician (born 1975)
- Osman Turhanb. 1976TRTurkish caricaturist (born 1976)
- Serpil Turhanb. 1979DEGerman actor and film director
- Olcay Turhanb. 1988DETurkish association football player (born 1988)
- Tuğra Turhanb. 2007CHTurkish-Swiss association football player (born 2007)
- Ali TurhanTRresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0002-4861-0137
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 33 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 166 | #12,446 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 68 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Turhan mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Soylu ve seçkin kimse.
- In which country does Turhan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 49 thousand people named Turhan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled turhan.
- How common is the name Turhan?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 166 people named Turhan in 2007, about 1 in 104 thousand residents.
- How common is Turhan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Turhan is the 199th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/turhanThe 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, “Turhan” — the 199th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.