Sözen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Güzel konuşan, söylev veren, hatip
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sœzˈæn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sözen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- CYCyprus≈1 in 242K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 689K
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 745K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sözen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 242K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sozen in TR Türkiye, US United States, FR France and 3 more.
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)
Güzel konuşan, söylev veren, hatip.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sözen 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 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 745K | — | Sozen | 51 |
| DE Germany | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Sözen | 37 |
| US United States | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 6.1M | listed | Sozen | 72 |
| FR France | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Sozen | 44 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Sozen | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 17 | 1 in 689K | 17 | Sozen | 10 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Sozen | 6 |
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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Sözen is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkmen, Çöl ösümligi ýaly bolsun,köp ýaşasyn.
as a wordturkmenkultur.com — Türkmen Adam Atlary (Turkmen personal names, Kylyç 1998)
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)
- Suzan Sözenb. 1929TRTurkish writer
- Mete Sözenb. 1930TRTurkish-American structural engineer (1930–2018)
- Nurettin Sözenb. 1937TRTurkish statesperson (born 1937)
- Hakkı Sözenb. 1950TRTurkish boxer (born 1950)
- Edibe Sözenb. 1961TRTurkish sociologist and statesperson (born 1961)
- Kadir Sözenb. 1964TRTurkish-German film director and producer (born 1964)
- Elif Sözen-Kohlb. 1969TRTurkish banker (born 1969)
- Melisa Sözenb. 1985TRTurkish actor (born 1985)
- Umut Sözenb. 1990TRTurkish association football player (born 1990)
- Can SözenTRTurkish sound engineer
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 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #129,203 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Sözen?
- A machine transcription gives /sœzˈæn/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Sözen mean?
- Recorded meaning: Güzel konuşan, söylev veren, hatip.
- In which country does Sözen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 110 people named Sözen in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sozen.
- How common is the name Sözen?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 17 people named Sözen in 2008, about 1 in 689 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%B6zenThe 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, “Sözen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.