Avşar
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/avʃˈar/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Avşar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: bk. Afşar.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 9.8K
- SYSyria≈1 in 93K
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
- 69 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈32,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Avsar in IN India, CH Switzerland.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
bk. Afşar.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Avşar 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 | #295 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Avşar | 69 |
| IN India | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 5.1M | 2 | Avsar | 28 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Avşar | 6 |
| FR France | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 499K | 20 | Avşar | 1 |
| CY Cyprus | #371 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Avşar | 6 |
| BE Belgium | — | 104 | 1 in 113K | 104 | Avşar | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 78 | 1 in 108K | 78 | Avsar | 9 |
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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Galip Avşarb. 1906TRTurkish statesperson (1906–1979)
- Mezahir Avşarb. 1955TRTurkish writer (born 1955)
- Hülya Avşarb. 1963TRTurkish actor and singer (born 1963)
- Yalçın Avşarb. 1966TRTurkish actor (born 1966)
- Bero Bassb. 1980DEnot in their usual nameGerman rapper
- Evren Avşarb. 1983TRTurkish association football player (born 1983)
- Koray Avşarb. 1994TRTurkish badminton player (born 1994)
- Ulaş AvşarTRTurkish researcher
- Cumhur AvşarTRTurkish microbiologist
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 7 sources across 3 countries.
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 Avşar?
- A machine transcription gives /avʃˈar/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Avşar mean?
- Recorded meaning: bk. Afşar.
- In which country does Avşar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 32 thousand people named Avşar in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled avşar.
- How common is the name Avşar?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 104 people named Avşar in 2008, about 1 in 113 thousand residents.
- How common is Avşar compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Avşar is the 295th 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/av%C5%9FarThe 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, “Avşar” — the 295th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.