Erkan

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Erkan has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1985. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1985, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Erkan, 1985

1 in 714,000

Erkan over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Erkan: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Erkan means

Erkan is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Erkan is used in Turkish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Erkan is pronounced /æɾˈkɑn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Erkan between 1985 and 1985. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1985; its best national rank was #6,860 in 1985.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Erkan?

Erkan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1985, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1985: 1 in 714,000; 5 of 3,568,740 births
Among boys only: 1 in 370,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1985: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 494,734 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Erkan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1985 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 494,734 children born in 1985 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Erkan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Erkans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Erkan was born before 1985 — so the typical Erkan is around 40 today.

Median birth year: 1985; About 40 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Erkan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1985 (5)
Years since peak: 40; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #6,860; 1985

Spellings of Erkan

Erkan is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 32.4% against Erkan's <0.01%.

Brian32.4%1,173,735
Ryan26.6%964,123
Ethan13.4%487,389
Bryan10.7%389,589
Evan7.9%287,701
Herman3.8%135,977
Ervin1.1%38,991
Erwin0.59%21,213

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Erkan around the world

Where Erkan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
1996–2021
#4,789
in 2021
France
1974–2025
#4,084
in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Erkan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #6,860; 1985
Peak year: 1985; 5 that year
First recorded: 1985
Last recorded: 1985
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Erkan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Erkin Erkhes Makan Vukan Lykan Deekan Akan Atakan Velkan Dekan Tarkan Okan Lukan Kan Serkan Rykan Anikan Nikan Elkan Arkan Vishakan Hakan Nickan Olamilekan

Sibling names for Erkan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Linsey Candis Kristan Santana Chiquita Kandice Daniel Domonique

For a brother

Whitney Marques Shea Derik Derrell Brenton Antoine Jerrod

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