Given name & surname

Erdogan

Erdogan is a masculine given name from Turkish. It is used in French.

Original TurkishErdoğan

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Erdogan comes from Turkish.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Turkish Erdoğan.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Erdogan’s family of names

In English usage, Erdogan has a related form in Erdoğan. In French usage, Erdogan as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the English form Erdoğan. In French usage, Erdogan was borrowed from the Turkish form Erdoğan.

Walk Erdogan’s family in the name graph

ErdoganErdoğan埃爾多安

Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Around the world

Erdogan has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Turkish roots to each of them.

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Turkishwhere Erdogan comes from · 1 name

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Dots on the border stand for languages further away. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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