Oral
surname · Latin script
Meaning: "Kaleyi, şehri ele geçir, zaptet" anlamında kullanılan bir ad (TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: Dominica, 2025
/oɾˈaɫ/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Oral is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 5.1Kfew records
- DMDominica≈1 in 48K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈48,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Oral
- Turkish:/oɾˈaɫ/(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)"Kaleyi, şehri ele geçir, zaptet" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where the surname Oral is found
(measured from records)Oral 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 | #233 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Oral | 104 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Oral | 5 |
| CY Cyprus | #436 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Oral | 11 |
| FR France | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 295K | 47 | Oral | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 136 | 1 in 127K | 136 | Oral | 18 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 80 | 1 in 105K | 80 | Oral | 11 |
| FI Finland | — | 59 | 1 in 94K | 59 | — | 4 |
| DM Dominica | — | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 48K | 3 | — | 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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)Oral is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Czech, masculine singular past active participle of orat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Interlingua, oral (pertaining to the mouth)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, oral (related to the mouth)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, obsolete spelling of orao
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Relating to the mouth.
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)- Deniz Oralb. 1963TRTurkish actor (born 1963)
- Nazmiye Oralb. 1969NLDutch actor (born 1969)
- Tomas Oralb. 1973DEGerman footballer and manager
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)39 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Oral mean?
- Recorded meaning: "Kaleyi, şehri ele geçir, zaptet" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.
- What are other forms of the name Oral?
- In the etymology graph, Orate is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Oral?
- In Turkish /oɾˈaɫ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Oral?
- Mondonomo estimates about 48 thousand people named Oral in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oral. After it come Philippines, Cyprus, France and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Oral?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 136 people named Oral in 2007, about 1 in 127 thousand residents.
- How common is Oral compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Oral is the 233rd most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Oral?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oralThe 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, “Oral” — the 233rd most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.