The Turan surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 672 people carried this name — #33,856 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 434,800 people counted. That is up 13% from 593 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
489 people named Turan live in Switzerland.
They live in 18 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/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 399 people named Turan 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 Limburg.
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 France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 102 people named Turan.
Most of them — 65 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 13 départements, most often Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
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 the Nordic population registers
319 people named Turan are counted in Sweden and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Turan in American newspapers,
1867–1963.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 4,042 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Turan,
with a public archive behind them.
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Ali bey Huseynzade 1864–1940 · writer -
İlter Turan 1941– · university teacher -
Güven Turan 1943– · poet -
Kenneth Turan 1946– · journalist -
Zübeyde Seven Turan 1953– · poet
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 196 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Turan.
When the index is not enough
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