Turan
A Turkish name meaning "land of Tur", a nod to Central Asia. In Poland it sits among the rarest names going: around 110 people carry it, and nearly all of them are men.
Turan Pronunciation
Turan is pronounced TOO-rahn (/ˈturan/).
What Turan means
Where Turan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Turan comes from the old Iranian world, where it named the country beyond the Oxus River, the land of Tur. In Ferdowsi's Persian epic, the Shahnameh, Tur was a son of the king Fereydun. The region that fell to him took his name, and Turan entered the map as the place of Tur.
Among Turkish speakers the word travelled further. Turan came to mean the Central Asian homeland of the Turkic peoples, a steppe country east of the settled Persian world. The name kept its plain sense the whole way. In English, land of Tur. In Polish, kraina tura.
As a given name in Poland it stays rare. It reads as a place. Say it over a school register and a few heads lift. The place it names is Central Asia, the steppe the Poles call kraina tura.
How many people are named Turan
1 in 209276 men in Poland is named Turan. 109 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3270 among male names.
Turan as a middle name
Turan is a first name for 109 men in Poland and a middle name for another 13, an 89/11 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2708th, between Thai (13) and Tuyen (13).
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#2706 Teodoro13
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#2707 Thai13
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#2708 Turan13
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#2709 Tuyen13
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#2710 Ulises13