Adnan

given name · Turkish · Latin script

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

Adnan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: "A descendent of Ismail and traditional ancestor of the North Arabian tribes...who called themselves ‘the sons of ‘Adnan’."'© He was "renowned for his eloquence."'’ Adnan Menderis: Prime Minister of T.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye1 in 1.2K◐
  • SYSyria1 in 1.8K
  • MYMalaysia1 in 5.8K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈19K ●

across 15 countries

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
144 ●

525K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.3K ◐

North Macedonia

Spellings & scripts●

AdnanLatin · Turkish●491K records
อาดือนันThai · Thai●2.5K records
АднанCyrillic · Kazakh●294 records
ᲐდნანGeorgian · Georgian●58 records
아드난Hangul · Korean●0 records

8 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled อดินันท์ in TH Thailand and Аднан in KZ Kazakhstan.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

"A descendent of Ismail and traditional ancestor of the North Arabian tribes...who called themselves ‘the sons of ‘Adnan’."'© He was "renowned for his eloquence."'’ Adnan Menderis: Prime Minister of Turkey (1950-60)

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Adnan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#202469,831459K rec.——Adnan113
SY Syria#18818,52719K rec.——Adnan18
TH Thailand—13,9188K rec.—#194,506อดินันท์65
MY Malaysia#43311,15116K rec.——Adnan69
ID Indonesia#9347,4254.1K rec.——Adnan136
US United States—6,2504.4K rec.1 in 53K6.3KAdnan144
PK Pakistan#6185,8971.2K rec.——Adnan66
SE Sweden—3,619△287 rec.1 in 2.8K3.6K—25
IN India—3,4331.5K rec.—87Adnan58
IQ Iraq—3,0343.3K rec.——Adnan17
ES Spain—1,753△221 rec.1 in 29K1.8KAdnan27
MK North Macedonia—1,595△70 rec.1 in 1.3K1.6K—8

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Turkish491K44%
  • Arabic121K11%
  • English118K11%
  • Urdu101K9%
  • Bangla75K7%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish491,08144%
Arabic121,18811%
English117,60911%
Urdu100,6039%
Bangla74,5757%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Adnan is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Urdu given name320K records spelled Adnan76 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, United States

    Languages: Urdu, Bangla, Hindi

    Also written আদনান, Ãdñãñ, Âdñâñ, Ãdnan, Adñañ

  • English given name207K records spelled Adnan50 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, United States, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written A'Dnan, Adnán, 'Adnan, Adnãn, Ādnān

  • Arabic given name172K records spelled Adnan14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, United States, Iraq, Türkiye

    Also written Adnàn, Àdnan, Ãdnan, 'Adnan, Àdnàn

  • Spanish given name26K records spelled Adnan51 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Spain, United States, Türkiye

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Adnán, Âdñâñ, Ädñâñ, Âdnãn, Aďňãň

  • French given name19K records spelled Adnan26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Àdnàn, Âdnan, Adnân, Adnàn, Adnän

  • Croatian given name13K records spelled Adnan23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, North Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina

    Languages: Croatian, Bosnian, Macedonian

    Also written Аднан, Adnàn, Âďńăn, Âďnán, Ädnän

  • Danish given name6.4K records spelled Adnan9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Syria

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

    Also written Ãdnañ, Àdńàń, Âdñäñ, Àdñâñ

  • a separate given name5.8K records spelled Adnan2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Iraq, Pakistan

    Also written Adnān

52 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●

Adnan 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, Bir yere yerleşip ikamet eden, mukim.

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

  • In Swedish, Adnan är ett arabiskt namn innehållande ett ord med betydelsen ’hemvist’. Adnan var enligt traditionen son till Ismael (→ Ismail) och stamfader till nordarabiska folkgrupper.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In English, Arabic; meaning unclear in OCR

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

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.

Over time●

05010015020019401960198020002020167 · 1988

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Adnan in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1923–2024
Yearrecords
19231
19241
19271
19301
19342
19351
19361
19372
19384
19391
19403
19413
19422
19432
19442
19451
19462
19476
19483
19497
19509
19516
195212
195315
195419
195515
195616
195718
195829
195932
196025
196132
196232
196325
196437
196536
196630
196734
196837
196943
197040
197145
197239
197357
197462
197586
197678
197794
1978112
1979145
1980163
1981134
1982127
1983149
1984118
1985115
1986121
1987114
1988167
1989106
1990102
199169
199273
199376
199467
199566
199672
199763
199834
199940
200038
200132
200231
200323
200425
200516
200612
200720
200817
20096
201017
20117
20128
201310
20147
20157
20167
201710
20182
20194
20204
20213
20225
20233
20244

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 95 years between 1923–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Adnan Adıvar, b. 1882Adnan Menderes, b. 1899Ahmet Adnan Saygun, b. 1907Adnan Khashoggi, b. 1935Adnan Badran, b. 1935Adnan Oktar, b. 1956Adnan Al-Talyani, b. 1964Adnan Maral, b. 1968Adnan Sami, b. 1971Adnan Januzaj, b. 1995

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 93 sources across 46 countries.

Official registers attesting Adnan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206.3K#3,373
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—3.6K#743
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—3.6K#152
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—2.4K#961
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20202.3K—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.8K#1,912
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.5K#940
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.4K#19,328
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—1.1K#367
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20251.1K#174
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20241.1K#929
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—721#406

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 724 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Adnan?
We estimate roughly 19 thousand people bear Adnan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Adnan have the most bearers?
Adnan is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled adnan.
How common is Adnan compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Adnan is the 202nd most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
Is Adnan a male or female name?
Adnan 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.
What does the name Adnan mean?
Recorded meaning: "A descendent of Ismail and traditional ancestor of the North Arabian tribes...who called themselves ‘the sons of ‘Adnan’."'© He was "renowned for his eloquence."'’ Adnan Menderis: Prime Minister of T…
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Adnan” — the 202nd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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