The Erdogan surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 167 people carried this name — #100,194 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,666,700 people counted.
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In Belgium’s population register
At least 554 people named Erdogan live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Liège.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
546 people named Erdogan live in Switzerland.
They live in 21 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 130 people named Erdogan.
Most of them — 105 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 17 départements, most often Seine-Saint-Denis.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In print
Erdogan in American newspapers,
1888–1963.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 6 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Erdogan,
with a public archive behind them.
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Lionel Erdogan 1950– · actor -
Erhan Erdogan 1980– · film actor
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 15 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Erdogan.
- Erbs 213 · U.S. census
- Ercolani 362 · U.S. census
- Ercole 412 · U.S. census
- Ercoli 262 · U.S. census
- Erdem 138 · U.S. census
- Erdmann 4,005 · U.S. census
- Erhard 951 · U.S. census
- Erhardt 2,173 · U.S. census
- Erhart 1,601 · U.S. census
- Eric 328 · U.S. census
- Erlich 774 · U.S. census
- Erman 700 · U.S. census
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