Volkan

given name · Latin script

Meaning: volcano

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

/vɔɫkˈan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 11K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 33K

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)

≈64,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
184 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

VolkanLatin(measured from records)
ΒολκανGreek(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)

volcano

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Volkan 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 Volkan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#392≈64,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K#99Volkan144
DE Germany—≈7,000 est.≈1 in 11K1Volkan130
CN China—≈2,200 est.≈1 in 646K—Volkan7
AT Austria#903≈1,100 est.≈1 in 8.3K94Volkan37
FR France—≈1,000 est.≈1 in 68K620Volkan4
CH Switzerland—≈760 est.≈1 in 11K22Volkan31
NL Netherlands—5251 in 33K525Volkan59
CY Cyprus#463≈360 est.≈1 in 3.5K—Volkan16

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: the tr-tuik-child-stats register; the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Volkan is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye, United States, Belgium

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Völkan, Vôlkàn, Volkán

  • Russian given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Волкан, Валкан, Vòlkàn

  • Bulgarian given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Bulgaria, United States, Croatia

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian

    Also written Волкан, Vòlkàn

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Volkán

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Volkan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Turkish, Yanardağ.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

  • In German, männl. Vom. türkischer Herkunft, der »Vulkan« bedeutet.

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Russian, var of Bolkan.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

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)

1940196019802000Volkan Bozkır, b. 1950Volkan Severcan, b. 1966Volkan Konak, b. 1967Volkan Arslan, b. 1978Volkan Kahraman, b. 1979Volkan Demirel, b. 1981Volkan Uygun, b. 1982Volkan Şen, b. 1987Volkan Babacan, b. 1988Volkan Özdemir, b. 1989

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)

InformalMerhaba Volkan,Hi Volkan, (English)

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)

Attested in 36 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Volkan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2011620#3,009
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—525#1,582
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—475#3,316
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)202494#1,820
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)20241#3,519
DE GermanyStadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene20131—
TR TürkiyeTÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names)1999—#99
DE GermanyStadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen2019——

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name 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

What does the name Volkan mean, and where does it come from?
volcano Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Volkan a male or female name?
Volkan is a male 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.
How do you pronounce Volkan?
A machine transcription gives /vɔɫkˈan/ (IPA) for Turkish.
In which country does Volkan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 64 thousand people named Volkan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled volkan.
How common is the name Volkan?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 525 people named Volkan, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
How common is Volkan compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Volkan is the 392nd 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, “Volkan” — the 392nd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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