Turan

Boys' name

From Ottoman Turkish توران; literal meaning unconfirmed

Turan has been given to 36 babies in the U.S. since 1967. 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 2015, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Turan, 2023

1 in 663,000

Turan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Turan: meaning, origin, and history

From Ottoman Turkish توران; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Turan means

Turan is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Turan is used in Turkish.

Turan comes through Ottoman Turkish توران and Old Turkic 𐱄𐰆𐰺𐰣.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 36 boys were recorded with the name Turan between 1967 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2015; its best national rank was #4,512 in 1967.

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 Turan?

Turan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only: 1 in 342,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 459,528 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Turan 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Turan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Turans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Turan was born before 2015 — so the typical Turan is around 10 today.

Median birth year: 2015; About 10 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 38.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 52.8%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 36; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 38.9% of all recorded uses (14).

Is Turan 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 2015 (7)
Years since peak: 10; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Very steady; 0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,512; 1967

Spellings of Turan

Turan is not the most common spelling — Juan is, with 70.5% against Turan's <0.01%.

Juan70.5%365,606
Thurman3.2%16,392
Truman3.1%15,947
Tyron1.5%7,670
Titan1.1%5,496
Torin1.0%5,255
Imran0.88%4,558
Oran0.86%4,447

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.

Turan around the world

Where Turan 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
2011–2023
#4,992
in 2023
France
1975–2022
#6,683
in 2022
South Australia
1999–1999
#539
in 1999

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Turan 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: #4,512; 1967
Peak year: 2015; 7 that year
First recorded: 1967
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 36
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Turan

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

Soran Zyran Evran Odhran Jubran Amran Zohran Turon Torran Agaran Turk Sharan Turney Adran Niran Turki Efran Haran Keeran Liran Deran Zahran Omran Saran

Sibling names for Turan

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

Aliah Jessa Coraline Milana Alannah Arden Averi Karleigh

For a brother

Caesar Crosby Kolten Immanuel Raylan Emmet Aarav Blaze

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