Ercan
Only about 116 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. The name is Turkish, meaning "brave soul".
Ercan Pronunciation
Ercan is pronounced ER-tsahn (/ˈɛrt͡san/).
What Ercan means
Where Ercan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ercan comes from Turkish, and it is built from two short words. "Er" means a brave man or soldier. "Can" means soul or life. Together they make "brave soul," the sense the name still holds today.
The name belongs to Turkish tradition, common among boys born in Turkey and in Turkish families abroad. It has no diminutive and no feminine form. What the register shows is the full name, Ercan, with nothing shortened.
On a Polish class list the name would sit between a Bartek and a Filip, four letters a teacher reads once and remembers. A child called Ercan in a Polish szkoła brings a Turkish word into a Polish room. The origin holds steady across that border. Two syllables, one meaning: brave soul.
How many people are named Ercan
1 in 184019 men in Poland is named Ercan. 116 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3138 among male names.
Ercan as a middle name
Ercan is a first name for 116 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 96/4 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4687th, between Ephrem (5) and Erdal (5).
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#4685 Eoghan5
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#4686 Ephrem5
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#4687 Ercan5
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#4688 Erdal5
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#4689 Erkam5