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SURNAMENo. 22

ADNKS 2025

Özkan

Özkan /øzˈkan/ ASCII Ozkan

“of pure blood, of good stock”3

#22 The 22nd most common surname in Türkiye 245,254 peopleTÜİK ADNKS 20251

National rank
221
ADNKS 2025
People
245,2541
ADNKS 2025
Per 1,000
2.92
1 in 351
Rank change
±01
vs 2024
Letters / syllables
5 / 2
Formation
Compound
Contents§1–§18
  1. §1Pronunciation
  2. §2Meaning
  3. §3Root tree
  4. §4Formation & 1934
  5. §5Name family
  6. §6Spellings
  7. §7How many
  8. §8Rank history
  9. §9Provinces
  10. §10Classroom maths
  11. §11Compared
  12. §12Full names
  13. §13Notable people
  14. §14As a first name
  15. §15Abroad
  16. §16Sources
  17. §17Questions
  18. §18Related

How do you pronounce Özkan?

Özkan

IPA /øzˈkan/

The stress usually falls on syllable 2 (marked). In everyday Turkish, stress in surnames varies by speaker and region.

What does the surname Özkan mean?

Öz, “pure, genuine”, joins kan, “blood”, and the name is commonly read as “of pure blood, of good lineage”. In some names the element -kan is linked instead with han, “khan, ruler”, but for Özkan the “blood, lineage” reading is the usual one. It is used as a male given name.3,4

Grammar Compound: öz + kan.

That Özkan goes back to öz and kan is probable rather than proven: the dictionaries cited agree on it.

What is Özkan made of?

Özkan is Turkic in origin and breaks into 2 parts: öz (own; pure) + kan (blood; lineage).

Özkan + first element öz own; pure TURKIC öz “self, own; pure” root kan blood; lineage TURKIC kan “blood; figurativelylineage” Özkan öz first element own; pure öz TURKIC “self, own; pure” kan root blood; lineage kan TURKIC “blood; figuratively lineage”
Özkan: parts and root words
  • öz Turkic — self, own; pure3
  • kan Turkic — blood; figuratively lineage4

How was the name Özkan formed?

Özkan was formed by joining öz (“own; pure”) and kan (“blood; lineage”).

Shared note · 1934Surnames became compulsory with Surname Law No. 2525 of 21 June 1934.10

Which surnames are related to Özkan?

Özkan Alkan Arıkan Gürkan Kandemir Atakan Türkkan Durukan Demirkan Soykan Akkan Taşkan Tunakan
Circle area shows the number of bearers; dashed circle: no national count published. Solid line: same root; dashed line: same affix.
#SurnameRelationRankPeople
01 Alkan same root – –
02 Arıkan same root – –
03 Gürkan same root – –
04 Kandemir same root – –
05 Atakan same root – –
06 Türkkan same root – –
07 Durukan same root – –
08 Demirkan same root – –
09 Soykan same root – –
10 Akkan same root – –
11 Taşkan same root – –
12 Tunakan same root – –

How else is Özkan spelled?

Özganspelling

How many people in Türkiye are called Özkan?

In TÜİK’s ADNKS 2025 figures, 245,254 people in Türkiye carry the surname Özkan, ranking it 22nd in the top 30. That is 4,888 behind Korkmaz and 8,937 ahead of Yavuz.1

Bearers by year

TÜİK · ADNKS · 2018–2025 238 k 240 k 243 k 245 k 20182019202020212022202320242025 238,478 240,311 241,681 242,772 243,809 244,378 244,901 245,254 TÜİK · ADNKS · 2018–2025 238 k 240 k 243 k 245 k ’18’20’22’24’25 238,478 240,311 241,681 242,772 243,809 244,378 244,901 245,254
People with the surname Özkan, 2018–2025 (TÜİK ADNKS) Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Özkan gained 6,776 bearers between 2018 and 2025, yet its share slipped from 2.91 to 2.85 per 1,000 people, because the population grew faster. It has held 22nd place every year since 2018.1,2

How has Özkan ranked over the years?

Source: TÜİK, address-based population register. Each row is that year’s record.
YearRankPeopleChangeSource
2025 22 245,254 +353 [1]
2024 22 244,901 +523 [1]
2023 22 244,378 +569 [1]
2022 22 243,809 +1,037 [1]
2021 22 242,772 +1,091 [1]
2020 22 241,681 +1,370 [1]
2019 22 240,311 +1,833 [1]
2018 22 238,478 – [1]

Where in Türkiye is Özkan most common?

Özkan is outside the national top 30, but it appears in the top-30 lists of 39 provinces; its best rank is 10th in Çanakkale.1

Adana Adıyaman Afyonkarahisar · rank 19 · 2,878 people Ağrı Amasya Ankara · rank 20 · 21,751 people Antalya · rank 19 · 9,406 people Artvin · rank 21 · 874 people Aydın · rank 13 · 4,183 people Balıkesir · rank 21 · 4,620 people Bilecik · rank 19 · 931 people Bingöl Bitlis · rank 25 · 1,083 people Bolu · rank 14 · 1,762 people Burdur · rank 16 · 1,273 people Bursa · rank 25 · 11,081 people Çanakkale · rank 10 · 3,790 people Çankırı · rank 16 · 847 people Çorum Denizli · rank 16 · 3,700 people Diyarbakır Edirne · rank 12 · 1,773 people Elazığ Erzincan Erzurum Eskişehir · rank 12 · 4,415 people Gaziantep Giresun Gümüşhane Hakkari · rank 23 · 1,283 people Hatay Isparta · rank 14 · 2,310 people Mersin · rank 27 · 5,791 people Istanbul · rank 29 · 39,924 people Izmir · rank 21 · 12,915 people Kars Kastamonu · rank 17 · 1,526 people Kayseri · rank 19 · 6,195 people Kırklareli · rank 16 · 1,259 people Kırşehir Kocaeli · rank 29 · 6,045 people Konya · rank 23 · 7,358 people Kütahya Malatya Manisa · rank 22 · 4,490 people Kahramanmaraş Mardin Muğla · rank 26 · 3,233 people Muş · rank 24 · 2,021 people Nevşehir Niğde · rank 15 · 1,809 people Ordu Rize Sakarya · rank 26 · 3,489 people Samsun Siirt Sinop Sivas · rank 27 · 2,200 people Tekirdağ · rank 20 · 4,057 people Tokat Trabzon Tunceli Şanlıurfa Uşak · rank 17 · 1,871 people Van Yozgat Zonguldak Aksaray Bayburt Karaman · rank 29 · 776 people Kırıkkale Batman Şırnak · rank 25 · 2,050 people Bartın Ardahan Iğdır Yalova Karabük · rank 25 · 901 people Kilis · rank 16 · 848 people Osmaniye · rank 29 · 1,559 people Düzce Hover or focus a province · ADNKS 2025
  • In the province top 30 39
  • Not listed
Özkan: rank by province, 2025 (TÜİK ADNKS, province top-30 lists)
Provinces with the most bearers
#ProvinceRankPeople
01Istanbul2939,924
02Ankara2021,751
03Izmir2112,915
04Bursa2511,081
05Antalya199,406
06Konya237,358

How often would you meet an Özkan?

About one person in 351 in Türkiye is an Özkan; a town of 10,000 would have around 29.

About 2.9 Özkans in a group of 1,000

245,254 ÷ 86,092,168 × 1,000 ≈ 2.9 1,2

The calculation divides bearers by the 2025 ADNKS population; a real school or class will differ by region.

How does Özkan compare with similar surnames?

Surnames in the “Built from Turkic name elements” category and the Özkan family:

  1. 22 Özkan 245,254
  2. 25 Özcan 233,820
  3. 26 Erdoğan 233,535
Surnames from the same category and family with a published national count (TÜİK ADNKS 2025)

Özkan and Özcan are carried by almost exactly as many people.

How many people are called Mehmet Özkan?

These are estimates that assume given names and surnames are independent. In reality, families and regions do not choose names independently, so read them as orders of magnitude.

#Full nameEstimated people
01 Mehmet Özkan ≈3,623estimate
02 Fatma Özkan ≈3,282estimate
03 Mustafa Özkan ≈3,013estimate
04 Ayşe Özkan ≈2,583estimate
05 Ahmet Özkan ≈2,442estimate

people(given name) × people(surname) ÷ population1,2,9

Who are some well-known people named Özkan?

  1. Hüseyin Özkan judoka 1972–
  2. Saadet Özkan human rights defender 1978–
  3. Ebru Özkan actor 1978–
  4. Sibel Özkan weightlifter 1988–
  5. Serdar Özkan association football player 1987–
  6. Kapriel Özkan association football player 1986–
  7. Aygül Özkan politician 1971–
  8. Devrim Özkan television actor 1998–

People surnamed Özkan as recorded in Wikidata, ordered by the number of Wikipedia language editions.

Is Özkan also a first name?

Yes. Özkan is given as a first name too, carrying the same sense: “of pure blood, of good stock”.

Özkan as a first name: meaning and statistics — turkiyenames.com →

How is Özkan written and pronounced abroad?

In passports and records outside Turkey Özkan is usually written Ozkan or Oezkan.

Where do these facts come from?

  1. 1 Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (TÜİK)ADNKS TÜİK Nüfus İsim Portalı: En çok kullanılan soyisimler (ADNKS) accessed 8 November 2026
  2. 2 Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (TÜİK)ADNKS TÜİK ADNKS: Cinsiyete göre nüfus, Türkiye ve 81 il accessed 8 November 2026
  3. 3 Sevan Nişanyan Nişanyan Sözlük: öz accessed 8 November 2026
  4. 4 Sevan Nişanyan Nişanyan Sözlük: kan accessed 8 November 2026
  5. 5 Wikimedia Wiktionary: öz accessed 8 November 2026
  6. 6 Wikimedia Wiktionary: kan accessed 8 November 2026
  7. 7 Wikimedia Wiktionary: Özkan accessed 8 November 2026
  8. 8 Wikimedia Foundation Wikidata: people with this family name accessed 8 November 2026
  9. 9 Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (TÜİK)ADNKS TÜİK Nüfus İsim Portalı — En çok kullanılan isimler (ADNKS) accessed 9 November 2026
  10. 10 T.C. Resmî Gazete / Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi (mevzuat.gov.tr) Soyadı Kanunu (Kanun No. 2525) accessed 8 November 2026
  11. 11 Natural Earth Natural Earth: Admin-1 boundaries accessed 8 November 2026
  12. 12 turkiyenames.com Türkiye İsimleri (turkiyenames.com) accessed 9 November 2026

Common questions about Özkan

Q1

What does the surname Özkan mean?

Öz, “pure, genuine”, joins kan, “blood”, and the name is commonly read as “of pure blood, of good lineage”. In some names the element -kan is linked instead with han, “khan, ruler”, but for Özkan the “blood, lineage” reading is the usual one. It is used as a male given name.
Q2

How many people in Türkiye have the surname Özkan?

245,254 people, according to TÜİK ADNKS 2025, which places it at number 22 in Türkiye.
Q3

What is the origin of the surname Özkan?

Özkan is made up of two elements: öz “self, own; pure” (Turkic) and kan “blood; figuratively lineage” (Turkic).
Q4

How do you pronounce Özkan?

Öz·kan, 2 syllables; IPA: /øzˈkan/.