Köroğlu
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Ünlü Türk halk öyküsünün kahramanı (TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
/cøɾoːɫu/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Köroğlu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 3.9Kfew records
- BEBelgium1 in 100K
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
- 90 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈42,000 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 Koroglu in FR France, PK Pakistan, DM Dominica and Köroglu in DE Germany.
How to pronounce Köroğlu
- Turkish:/cøɾoːɫu/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Ünlü Türk halk öyküsünün kahramanı.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Köroğlu is found
(measured from records)Köroğlu 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 | #256 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Köroğlu | 60 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Köroglu | 57 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 465K | — | Koroglu | 1 |
| CY Cyprus | #203 | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Köroğlu | 12 |
| FR France | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 427K | 21 | Koroglu | 90 |
| BE Belgium | — | 117 | 1 in 100K | 117 | Köroğlu | 13 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 107K | 7 | — | 2 |
| DM Dominica | #778 | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Koroglu | 1 |
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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)- Derya Köroğlub. 1955TRTurkish musician (born 1955)
- Hüseyin Köroğlub. 1964TRTurkish actor and director (born 1964)
- Abdülkadir Köroğlub. 1991TRTurkish boxer (born 1991)
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Köroğlu?
- In Turkish /cøɾoːɫu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Köroğlu mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ünlü Türk halk öyküsünün kahramanı.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Köroğlu?
- Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Köroğlu in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled köroğlu. After it come Germany, Pakistan, Cyprus and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Köroğlu?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 117 people named Köroğlu in 2008, about 1 in 100 thousand residents.
- How common is Köroğlu compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Köroğlu is the 256th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Köroğlu” — the 256th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.