Erdoğan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: The name of various villages in Turkey:
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: TÜİK, 1970
/eɾdoan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Erdoğan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common surname.
- TRTürkiye1 in 351(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 4.6K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 7.3K
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 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- 1 in 351 (inferred from the name graph)
233,535 people, 2025
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Erdogan in CH Switzerland.
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)The name of various villages in Turkey:
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Erdoğan 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 | #24 | 233,535 | 1 in 351 | 234K | Erdoğan | 134 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | listed | Erdoğan | 8 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | 20 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 543 | 1 in 15K | 543 | Erdogan | 32 |
| BE Belgium | — | 510 | 1 in 23K | 666 | Erdoğan | 35 |
| CY Cyprus | #172 | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Erdoğan | 16 |
233,535 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used surnames, 2025. 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: TÜİK NIP — most used surnames; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the az-justice-names register; 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)Erdoğan 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 Turkish, 1. Yiğit olarak doğan kimse.2. Erken doğan kimse.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)- Özdemir Erdoğanb. 1940TRTurkish composer and singer-songwriter (born 1940)
- Recep Tayyip Erdoganb. 1954TRPresident of Turkey since 2014
- Emine Erdoğanb. 1955TRFirst Lady of the Republic of Turkey (b. 1955)
- Aslı Erdoğanb. 1967TRTurkish author and human rights activist
- Yilmaz Erdoganb. 1967TRTurkish actor and director (born 1967)
- Ahmet Burak Erdoğanb. 1979TRTurkish businessperson (b. 1979)
- Bilal Erdoğanb. 1981TRTurkish businessman and politician (b. 1981)
- Esra Albayrak Erdoğanb. 1983TRTurkish sociologist (born 1983)
- Sümeyye Erdoğanb. 1985TRTurkish economist and businesswoman (b. 1983)
- Gizem Erdoğanb. 1987SETurkish-Swedish actor (born 1987)
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | — | — |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 1970 | — | #47 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 1960 | — | #45 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 Erdoğan mean, and where does it come from?
- The name of various villages in Turkey: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Erdoğan?
- A machine transcription gives /eɾdoan/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Erdoğan have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 234 thousand people named Erdoğan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled erdoğan.
- Where is Erdoğan most common?
- Erdoğan is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 351 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Erdoğan?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 233,535 people named Erdoğan in 2025, about 1 in 351 residents.
- How common is Erdoğan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Erdoğan is the 24th 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/erdo%C4%9FanThe 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, “Erdoğan” — the 24th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.