Given name & surname
Okan
“resembling a horse”
Okan is used as a given name and a surname. One Turkish interpretation is “resembling a horse.”
Original TurkishOğan
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Turkish interpretation is “resembling a horse.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Turkish.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2009. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Okan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2010. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 2009. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 229 as a first name in 2020; 138 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Okan’s family of names
In Turkish usage, Okan shares an earlier linguistic root with Oğan. Okan has a related form in Oken. Okan has a related form in Okin.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Okan
- Okan BurukTurkish footballer and managerborn 1973
- Okan YalabıkTurkish actor (born 1978)
- Okan AydınTurkish association football player (born 1994)
- Okan YılmazTurkish association football player (born 1978)
- Okan KocukTurkish association football player (born 1995)
- Okan BayülgenTurkish actor (born 1964)
- Okan KurtTurkish association football player (born 1995)
- Okan DericiTurkish-German association football player (born 1993)
- Okan ÖztürkTurkish association football player (born 1977)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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