Merdan
given name · Turkmen · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Merdan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Turkmenistan, where it is the 5th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkmen and Turkish, written in the Latin script.
- TMTurkmenistan1 in 193◐
- TRTürkiye1 in 40K
- RURussia1 in 536K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈385 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 84 ●
- 1 in 192K ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
50K records
Official registry-verified
Albania
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Мердан in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more.
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●
Erkekler, yiğitler, mertler.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TM Turkmenistan | #5 | 29,159 | 29K rec. | — | 146K | Merdan | 24 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 13,401 | 18K rec. | — | — | Merdan | 44 |
| IN India | — | 2,188 | 3 rec. | — | 3 | Merdan | 3 |
| RU Russia | — | 1,930 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | Мердан | 84 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 345 | 339 rec. | — | — | Мердан | 22 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | 201 | 3 rec. | — | — | Merdan | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 138△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 277K | 138 | Merdan | 3 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | 123 | 86 rec. | — | — | Merdan | 8 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | 90 | 57 rec. | 1 in 212K | 90 | Мердан | 12 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 82 | 72 rec. | 1 in 211K | 82 | Merdan | 10 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | 55 | 32 rec. | — | — | Merdan | 5 |
| SE Sweden | — | 42△ | 19 rec. | 1 in 243K | 42 | Merdan | 7 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Turkmen21K34%
- Turkish14K23%
- English6.4K11%
- Azerbaijani3.5K6%
- Hindi2.5K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkmen | 20,551 | 34% |
| Turkish | 13,922 | 23% |
| English | 6,391 | 11% |
| Azerbaijani | 3,499 | 6% |
| Hindi | 2,453 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Merdan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Kurdish, The brave, the valiant
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Turkish, Erkekler, yiğitler, mertler.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1921 | 1 |
| 1923 | 1 |
| 1926 | 1 |
| 1927 | 2 |
| 1928 | 2 |
| 1930 | 1 |
| 1932 | 3 |
| 1933 | 1 |
| 1934 | 2 |
| 1935 | 4 |
| 1936 | 6 |
| 1937 | 2 |
| 1938 | 3 |
| 1939 | 7 |
| 1940 | 4 |
| 1941 | 4 |
| 1942 | 9 |
| 1943 | 4 |
| 1944 | 14 |
| 1945 | 7 |
| 1946 | 5 |
| 1947 | 14 |
| 1948 | 8 |
| 1949 | 13 |
| 1950 | 5 |
| 1951 | 13 |
| 1952 | 16 |
| 1953 | 13 |
| 1954 | 16 |
| 1955 | 15 |
| 1956 | 12 |
| 1957 | 20 |
| 1958 | 15 |
| 1959 | 16 |
| 1960 | 15 |
| 1961 | 16 |
| 1962 | 21 |
| 1963 | 25 |
| 1964 | 32 |
| 1965 | 12 |
| 1966 | 27 |
| 1967 | 23 |
| 1968 | 18 |
| 1969 | 26 |
| 1970 | 24 |
| 1971 | 30 |
| 1972 | 23 |
| 1973 | 20 |
| 1974 | 27 |
| 1975 | 18 |
| 1976 | 22 |
| 1977 | 30 |
| 1978 | 29 |
| 1979 | 28 |
| 1980 | 23 |
| 1981 | 21 |
| 1982 | 19 |
| 1983 | 19 |
| 1984 | 22 |
| 1985 | 30 |
| 1986 | 28 |
| 1987 | 18 |
| 1988 | 20 |
| 1989 | 15 |
| 1990 | 19 |
| 1991 | 21 |
| 1992 | 22 |
| 1993 | 24 |
| 1994 | 32 |
| 1995 | 12 |
| 1996 | 9 |
| 1997 | 7 |
| 1998 | 3 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 73 years between 1921–1998. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Erdal Merdanb. 1949TRTurkish-German actor and theater director (1949–2010)
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 26 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 160 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Merdan?
- We estimate roughly 385 people bear Merdan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Merdan have the most bearers?
- Merdan is most frequently recorded in Turkmenistan, where it is most often spelled merdan.
- How common is Merdan compared with other names?
- In Turkmenistan, Merdan is the 5th most common given name of 51,859 given names recorded there.
- Is Merdan a male or female name?
- Merdan 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.
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About this data
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, “Merdan” — the 5th most common given name in Turkmenistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.