Furkan
A Turkish name carried to families through the Quran, where al-Furqan names the faculty of telling right from wrong: criterion, distinction. In Poland it stays rare, given only to boys, with fewer than 300 men bearing it.
Furkan Pronunciation
Furkan is pronounced FOOR-kahn (/ˈfurkan/).
What Furkan means
Where Furkan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Furkan came to Turkish families through the Quran, where al-Furqan names the faculty of telling right from wrong. Al-Furqan is also the title of the Quran's twenty-fifth sura. The name's root is Semitic, sharing ground with Hebrew verbs for separating and dividing. From that act of drawing a line comes its meaning: criterion, distinction.
The name keeps a single shape. No diminutive softens it, and no feminine form answers it. On a class register a Furkan appears once, spelled the same way on every official form at the urząd.
What the name asks of its bearer is judgment. To carry the sense of distinction is to be, in a small way, the one who sorts and decides. That older Semitic verb, the one meaning to part and to separate, still sits under the Polish gloss, rozróżnienie.
How many people are named Furkan
1 in 79354 men in Poland is named Furkan. 269 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1858 among male names.
Furkan's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Furkan as a middle name
Furkan is a first name for 269 men in Poland and a middle name for another 107, a 72/28 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 682nd, between Carlo (107) and Mike (107).
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#680 Lars108
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#681 Carlo107
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#682 Furkan107
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#683 Mike107
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#684 Shmuel107