Öncü
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Kılavuz, rehber. 2
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: CBG Familienamenbank, 2007
/øn̪dʒy/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Öncü is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 4.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 200K
- DEGermany≈1 in 210Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Oncu in FR France, PK Pakistan.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)1. Kılavuz, rehber. 2. Önder. 3. Yeni bir görüş ve akım başlatan kimse.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Öncü is found
(measured from records)Öncü counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #567 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Öncü | 57 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 387K | — | Oncu | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Öncü | 39 |
| FR France | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 367K | 32 | Oncu | 75 |
| CY Cyprus | #722 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Öncü | 9 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Öncü | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 57 | 1 in 303K | 57 | Öncü | 7 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 204K | listed | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Erman Öncüb. 1976TRTurkish association football player (born 1976)
- Can Öncüb. 2003TRTurkish motorcycle racer (born 2003)
- Deniz Öncüb. 2003TRTurkish motorcycle racer (born 2003)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Öncü?
- In Turkish /øn̪dʒy/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Öncü mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Kılavuz, rehber. 2.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Öncü?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Öncü in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled öncü. After it come Pakistan, Germany, France and Cyprus; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Öncü?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 57 people named Öncü in 2007, about 1 in 303 thousand residents.
- How common is Öncü compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Öncü is the 567th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B6nc%C3%BCThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Öncü” — the 567th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.