Alp

given name · Turkish · Latin script

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

Alp is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. It appears chiefly in Turkish and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: nickname from the bull-finch, Middle English alp(e); first attested Matilda Alpe 1275 RH (Nf).

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye1 in 4K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 731K
  • CYCyprus1 in 8K

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

≈931 ●

across 11 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
147 ●

236K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 42K ◐

North Macedonia

Spellings & scripts●

AlpLatin · Turkish●139K records
АлпCyrillic · Uzbek●29 records

Locally spelled Алп 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●

nickname from the bull-finch, Middle English alp(e); first attested Matilda Alpe 1275 RH (Nf)

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Alp is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#643135,852231K rec.——Alp113
US United States—4551.9K rec.1 in 731K455Alp147
GB United Kingdom—326269 rec.—listedAlp55
CY Cyprus#893285599 rec.——Alp21
NL Netherlands—227308 rec.1 in 76K227Alp22
BE Belgium—133217 rec.—79Alp17
CH Switzerland—131138 rec.—66Alp11
CA Canada—112135 rec.—2Alp28
PL Poland—71△1 rec.1 in 539K71—1
MK North Macedonia—51△15 rec.1 in 42K51—3
RU Russia—5067 rec.——Alp16
AZ Azerbaijan—4935 rec.—46Alp4

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Languages●

  • Turkish139K92%
  • German3.2K2%
  • English2.6K2%
  • French1K1%
  • Hindi6821%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish138,87492%
German3,1582%
English2,5832%
French1,0151%
Hindi6821%

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◐

Alp is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name12K records spelled Alp5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Türkiye, Netherlands

    Languages: German, English, Western Frisian

    Also written Ãlp

  • French given name3.1K records spelled Alp5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye, United States, Belgium

    Languages: French, Spanish

    Also written Ãlp, Älp

  • Polish given name980 records spelled Alp15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Türkiye, North Macedonia, Bulgaria

    Languages: Polish, Bulgarian, Czech

    Also written Алп, Âlp, Álp, Альп

53 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●

Alp is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Matilda Alpe 1275 RH (Nf); James Alpes 1664 FrY. A nickname from the bull-finch, ME alp(e) (c1400 NED).

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In Turkish, brave, hero

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Turkish, 1. Yiğit, kahraman, cesur, bahadır kimse. 2. Eski Türklerde kullanılan bir unvan.

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

  • In German, Patronymischer Familienname zu einem Rufnamen mit ahd. adal 'Geschlecht, Adel' oder ahd. alb, alp 'Alb, Elf, Naturgeist'. 170 Belege; überwiegend türkisches Fremdnamengebrauch.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • In otk, brave; difficult; brave warrior; component in proper names

    as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)

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●

050100150200197019801990200020102020170 · 2021

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Alp in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1965–2025
Yearrecords
19651
19721
19731
19771
19921
19931
19941
19951
19971
19991
20004
20024
20048
20056
20063
20078
200812
200910
201013
201122
201226
201323
201432
201531
201649
201748
201898
2019127
2020151
2021170
2022164
2023166
2024160
2025115

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 34 years between 1965–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19401960198020002020Alp Öyken, b. 1943Alp Kırşan, b. 1979Alp Gün, b. 1980Alp Korkmaz, b. 1981Alp Navruz, b. 1990Savaş Alp Başar, b. 1996Alp Eren Özkan, b. 2003Alp Eren Khamis, b. 2003Alp Akar, b. 2006

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 52 sources across 29 countries.

Official registers attesting Alp
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—1.4K#567
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020455#21,819
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—337#2,664
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—227#2,692
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—172#5,818
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)2021170—
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007148#13,705
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)2024140#302
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—132#4,138
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010116#143,149
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)2025115—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—93#5,356

Reference works 5

  • 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 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 · 278 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Alp?
We estimate roughly 931 people bear Alp (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Alp have the most bearers?
Alp is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled alp.
How common is Alp compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Alp is the 643rd most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
Is Alp a male or female name?
Alp 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 Alp mean?
Recorded meaning: nickname from the bull-finch, Middle English alp(e); first attested Matilda Alpe 1275 RH (Nf)
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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, “Alp” — the 643rd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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