Volkan
A Latin name meaning "volcano", carried into Poland mostly through Turkish use. Only about 144 men here answer to it, so most Poles have never met one.
Volkan Pronunciation
What Volkan means
Where Volkan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Volkan begins with a god. Vulcanus was the Roman deity of fire and the forge, and from his name the European languages drew the word volcano. Turkish borrowed it directly as volkan, the everyday term for a mountain that burns.
As a given name, Volkan is Turkish and masculine, and it means exactly that word: volcano. The fire came first, in the old god at his anvil. The mountain sense arrived later, once the word settled onto Etna and its neighbours.
In Turkey the name is common, and it turns up often on goalkeepers. Volkan Demirel kept goal for Fenerbahçe and for the national team for years. On a Polish class register the name would stand out, six letters that a teacher reads once and remembers.
For a Polish ear, Volkan sits close to wulkan, so the meaning needs no translation. The boy is named for a volcano.
How many people are named Volkan
1 in 148237 men in Poland is named Volkan. 144 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2725 among male names.
Volkan as a middle name
Volkan is a first name for 144 men in Poland and a middle name for another 21, an 87/13 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1953rd, between Vladyslav (21) and Wenecjusz (21).
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#1951 Thaddäus21
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#1952 Vladyslav21
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#1953 Volkan21
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#1954 Wenecjusz21
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#1955 Xuan21