Gülcan
Just 23 Polish women carry it, and no girl has been given it since at least 2000: most Poles have never met one. Turkish at root, it means "rose soul".
Gülcan Pronunciation
Gülcan is pronounced GÜLTSAHN (/gült͡san/).
What Gülcan means
Where Gülcan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gülcan comes from Turkish, and it joins two words that Turkish borrowed from Persian long ago. Gül means rose. Can means soul, or life. Together they give the meaning the site records: rose soul, a soul colored and scented like a rose.
The word gül stands behind many Turkish names, from Gülnur to Gülşen. It goes back to Persian gul, the plain word for a flower and above all for the rose. Can shares its root with the Turkish endearment canım, my dear one. A girl named Gülcan holds both words at once.
In Poland the name is uncommon, and it reads plainly as Turkish. On a form at the urząd it keeps its ü and its one clear sense.
The meaning here stays close to the origin, with no later gloss added on top. Rose soul. Gül and can, joined.
How many people are named Gülcan
1 in 980167 women in Poland is named Gülcan. 23 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9015 among female names.
Gülcan as a middle name
Gülcan is a first name for 23 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, an 88/12 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4829th, between Gönül (3) and Hacer (3).
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#4827 Gyöngyi3
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#4828 Gönül3
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#4829 Gülcan3
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#4830 Hacer3
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#4831 Hae3