Üstün
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Benzerlerine göre daha yüksek bir düzeyde olan, onları geride bırakan
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ys̪t̪yn̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Üstün is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 17K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 62K
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
- 96 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈35,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)1. Benzerlerine göre daha yüksek bir düzeyde olan, onları geride bırakan. 2. Yenen, galip gelen. 3. Sayıca çok, fazla.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Üstün 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 | #275 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Üstün | 53 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Üstün | 3 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Üstün | 2 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Üstün | 5 |
| NO Norway | — | 58 | 1 in 94K | 58 | Üstün | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 43 | 1 in 195K | 43 | Üstün | 3 |
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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Üstün 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 otk, connoting motion onto or situation on (something)
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
In Azerbaijani, superior
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)- Galip Üstünb. 1875TRTurkish physician and statesperson (1875–1938)
- Feridun Üstünb. 1916TRTurkish statesperson (1916–2009)
- Ahmet Üstünb. 1923TRTurkish statesperson (1923–1991)
- Nevzat Üstünb. 1924TRTurkish writer (1924–1979)
- Ahmet Üstünb. 1925TRTurkish actor and singer (1925–1988)
- Esin Emin Üstünb. 1936TRTurkish scientist (born 1936)
- Ayhan Sefer Üstünb. 1970TRTurkish statesperson (born 1970)
- Bülent Üstünb. 1974TRTurkish caricaturist (born 1974)
- Şuayib Üstünb. 1983DEGerman biochemist
- Irem ÜstünTRTurkish association football player
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 43 | #20,892 |
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
- How do you pronounce Üstün?
- A machine transcription gives /ys̪t̪yn̪/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Üstün mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Benzerlerine göre daha yüksek bir düzeyde olan, onları geride bırakan.
- In which country does Üstün have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 35 thousand people named Üstün in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled üstün.
- How common is the name Üstün?
- In Norway, the national register counted 58 people named Üstün, about 1 in 94 thousand residents.
- How common is Üstün compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Üstün is the 275th 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%BCst%C3%BCnThe 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, “Üstün” — the 275th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.