Given name
Tarkan
Tarkan is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish. It is used in Turkish.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2000. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tarkan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2005
- 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 6 in 2005. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Tarkan
- TarkanTurkish singer (born 1972)
- Tarkan TüzmenTurkish actor and singer (born 1968)
- Tarkan SerbestTurkish-Austrian association football player (born 1994)
- MOKGerman rapperborn 1976
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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