Ünlü
surname · Latin script
Meaning: famous
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ynly/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ünlü is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 31K
- ATAustria≈1 in 11K
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)
- Sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈79,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
famous
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ünlü 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 | #121 | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Ünlü | 92 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Ünlü | 57 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Ünlü | 23 |
| FR France | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 113K | 115 | Ünlü | 114 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 337 | 1 in 51K | 337 | Ünlü | 36 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Ünlü | 4 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Ünlü | 7 |
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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ünlü is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, Tanınmış, adı duyulmuş, şöhretli, şanlı.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Azerbaijani, famous, outstanding
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mahir Ünlüb. 1926TRTurkish educator (born 1926)
- Şemsettin Ünlüb. 1928TRTurkish poet and writer (1928–2019)
- Cihat Ünlüb. 1955TRTurkish gynecologist (born 1955)
- Ahmet Mahmut Ünlüb. 1965TRTurkish writer (born 1965)
- Altuğ Ünlüb. 1965TRTurkish-German composer and college professor (born 1965)
- Onur Ünlüb. 1973TRTurkish actor and director (born 1973)
- Volkan Ünlüb. 1983TRTurkish association football player (born 1983)
- Tolga Ünlüb. 1989DETurkish-German association football player (born 1989)
- Baturalp Ünlüb. 2002TRTurkish swimmer (born 2002)
- Umut ÜnlüTRTurkish para swimmer
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)
Attested in 15 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 337 | #6,041 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ünlü mean, and where does it come from?
- famous Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ünlü?
- A machine transcription gives /ynly/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Ünlü have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 79 thousand people named Ünlü in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ünlü.
- How common is the name Ünlü?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 337 people named Ünlü in 2007, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
- How common is Ünlü compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Ünlü is the 121st most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ünlü?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%BCnl%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, “Ünlü” — the 121st most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.