{"id":15,"date":"2026-11-10T15:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/blog\/alparslan-name-meaning-and-rank-turkey\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T15:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:29:08","slug":"alparslan-name-meaning-and-rank-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/blog\/alparslan-name-meaning-and-rank-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Alparslan: hero lion, and its climb in Turkey, 2018\u20132025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alparslan was thirtieth on T\u00dc\u0130K&#8217;s national top-30 list for boys in 2018, and it was first in each year from 2022 to 2025. This guide sets out what our database records about its meaning, where we list the name, and its rank in each year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/guides\/infographics\/profile-alparslan.svg\" alt=\"Rank of Alparslan in Turkey&#x27;s national top 30, 2018\u20132025\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"what-the-name-means\">What the name means<\/h2>\n<p>Our stored meaning for Alparslan is <em>hero lion<\/em>, with the confidence level <em>documented<\/em>. Our literal breakdown is <em>alp<\/em>, meaning hero, and <em>arslan<\/em>, meaning lion. Our explanation field notes that the name is also spelled Alpaslan. Our summary says its elements are Turkic in origin. Our database holds one meaning entry for the name and records no alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>Our database also has an entry for <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/arslan\/\">Arslan<\/a>, the second element of the name.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"where-the-name-is-used\">Where the name is used<\/h2>\n<p>Our table lists Alparslan for one language, Turkish, with the usage status recorded as in use.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"how-often-it-was-given-in-turkey-2018-2025\">How often it was given in Turkey, 2018\u20132025<\/h2>\n<p>In T\u00dc\u0130K&#8217;s boys&#8217; top-30 lists, Alparslan ranked as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2018: rank 30, count 2,645<\/li>\n<li>2019: rank 18, count 3,678<\/li>\n<li>2020: rank 8, count 4,390<\/li>\n<li>2021: rank 2, count 6,206<\/li>\n<li>2022: rank 1, count 8,318<\/li>\n<li>2023: rank 1, count 8,941<\/li>\n<li>2024: rank 1, count 8,070<\/li>\n<li>2025: rank 1, count 7,509<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Its rank improved in every year from 2018 to 2022, and it held first place from 2022 to 2025. Its highest count in this period was 8,941, recorded in 2023. The count fell in 2024 and again in 2025, while the name stayed first. Its count was lowest in 2018, at 2,645, when the name was thirtieth. Its rank improved in each year from 2019 to 2022: from eighteenth to eighth, then second, then first.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"where-the-data-comes-from\">Where the data comes from<\/h2>\n<p>Ranks and counts come from <a href=\"https:\/\/nip.tuik.gov.tr\/?value=YeniDoganIsimleri\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">T\u00dc\u0130K&#8217;s name statistics page<\/a>, which covers the most-given newborn names for 2018\u20132025. Our chart uses the same national top-30 lists, and a year without a point means the name was not in that year&#8217;s top 30. The counts are births in those top-30 lists, not all births in Turkey. Meanings and languages come from our own database, and confidence levels are shown as stored.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"sources\">Sources<\/h2>\n<ol class=\"tn-sources\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/data.tuik.gov.tr\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">T\u00dc\u0130K (Turkish Statistical Institute)<\/a> \u2013 newborn-name lists, 2018\u20132025<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our stored meaning hero lion for Alparslan, its literal parts, its Turkish usage entry, and T\u00dc\u0130K boys&#8217; ranks from 2018 to 2025, when it climbed to first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tn_meta_description":"Alparslan's meaning as hero lion in our database, its documented confidence level, and year-by-year T\u00dc\u0130K top-30 ranks from 2018 to 2025.","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}