Tûrkan

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Tûrkan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 627(inferred from the name graph)
  • AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 4.3K
  • CYCyprus≈1 in 3.4K

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)

≈130,000 people, est.

Sources
45 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 627 (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Türkan in TR Türkiye, AZ Azerbaijan, CY Cyprus and 1 more.

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)

recorded in Turkish

Koruyucu, muhafız.

Sources 2

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tûrkan 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.

Where Tûrkan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#111≈130,000 est.≈1 in 627#99Türkan45
AZ Azerbaijan#274≈2,400 est.≈1 in 4.3K161Türkan13
AT Austria—≈540 est.≈1 in 17K20——
CY Cyprus#193≈370 est.≈1 in 3.4K—Türkan10
SY Syria—≈260 est.≈1 in 74K—Türkan6
DK Denmark—1511 in 39K151——

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: Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tûrkan is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Türkan, Turkan

  • German given name26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Türkiye, Azerbaijan, United States

    Languages: German, Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Türkan, Turkan, Tuerkan, Türkân, თურკან

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Tûrkan under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Tûrkan a male or female name?
Tûrkan is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Tûrkan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 131 thousand people named Tûrkan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled türkan.
How common is the name Tûrkan?
In Denmark, the national register counted 151 people named Tûrkan, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
How common is Tûrkan compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Tûrkan is the 111th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.

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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, “Tûrkan” — the 111th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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