Ceylan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: antelope (any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/d͡ʒɛjɫˈan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ceylan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 51st most common surname.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 564(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 6.6K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 7.7K
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
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 564 (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
antelope (any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ceylan 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 | #51 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 564 | #81 | Ceylan | 131 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | 15 | — | — |
| FR France | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 56K | 197 | Ceylan | 2 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 17 | Ceylan | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 368 | 1 in 47K | 368 | Ceylan | 29 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 356 | 1 in 24K | 356 | Ceylan | 22 |
| CY Cyprus | #427 | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Ceylan | 9 |
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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; 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)
Ceylan 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 French, Ceylon (former name of Sri Lanka: an island country in South Asia)
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)
- Hasan Ceylanb. 1922TRTurkish actor (1922–1980)
- Nuri Bilge Ceylanb. 1959TRTurkish film director and producer (born 1959)
- Lâçin Ceylanb. 1965TRTurkish actor (born 1965)
- Taner Ceylanb. 1967TRTurkish artist (born 1967)
- Turan Ceylanb. 1968TRTurkish wrestler (born 1968)
- Mesut Ceylanb. 1974TRTurkish actor (born 1974)
- Bülent Ceylanb. 1976DETurkish-German comedian (born 1976)
- Ebru Ceylanb. 1976TRTurkish actor and director (born 1976)
- Ufuk Ceylanb. 1986TRTurkish association football player (born 1986)
- Oğuz Ceylanb. 1990TRTurkish association football player (born 1990)
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)
Attested in 46 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 368 | #5,506 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 356 | #3,707 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 197 | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Ceylan mean, and where does it come from?
- antelope (any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ceylan?
- A machine transcription gives /d͡ʒɛjɫˈan/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Ceylan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 146 thousand people named Ceylan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ceylan.
- How common is the name Ceylan?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 368 people named Ceylan in 2007, about 1 in 47 thousand residents.
- How common is Ceylan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Ceylan is the 51st 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/ceylanThe 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, “Ceylan” — the 51st most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.