Erkan
Erkan is a common Turkish given name. It is composed of "Er" and "Kan". In Turkish "Er" means "Male", "Brave", "Valiant" and "Kan" means "Blood", "Lineage".
- Turkish
Meaning & Origin of Erkan
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Erkan is a common Turkish given name. It is composed of "Er" and "Kan". In Turkish "Er" means "Male", "Brave", "Valiant" and "Kan" means "Blood", "Lineage".
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Turkish
The Story of Erkan
Erkan first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1985, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1985: 5 births, good for #6,523 nationwide. Erkan last appeared in the published SSA data in 1985, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 5 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Erkan
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About the name Erkan
Erkan is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1985 and has accumulated 5 births in the dataset. Erkan's peak popularity came in 1985 when it ranked #6,523. Use the chart and map above to compare Erkan's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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