Tatlı
surname · Latin script
Meaning: sweet; having a pleasant taste, akin to that of sugar
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tatlı is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 3.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 12K
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 158K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
sweet; having a pleasant taste, akin to that of sugar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tatlı 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 | #427 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | Tatlı | 56 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 158K | Tatlı | 4 |
| CY Cyprus | #836 | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | Tatlı | 5 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 697K | Tatlı | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 190K | Tatlı | 3 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 440K | Tatlı | 2 |
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.
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)
Tatlı 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 Turkish, 1. Lezzetli. 2. Hoşa giden, şirin.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In crh, sweet
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)
- İbrahim Tatlısesb. 1952TRnot in their usual nameTurkish musician (born 1952)
- Adem Tatlıb. 1968TRTurkish statesperson (born 1968)
- Ferdi Tatlıb. 1979TRTurkish association football player (born 1979)
- Efe Tatlıb. 2002TRTurkish association football player (born 2002)
- Mustafa Mansur TatliTRnot in their usual nameTurkish researcher
- Tayfun TatlıTRassociation football player
- HALİM TATLITRnot in their usual nameTurkish researcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 0 countries.
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
- What does the name Tatlı mean, and where does it come from?
- sweet; having a pleasant taste, akin to that of sugar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Tatlı have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Tatlı in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tatlı.
- How common is the name Tatlı?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22,000 people in Türkiye have Tatlı as their first surname, about 1 in 3.7 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Tatlı compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Tatlı is the 427th 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, “Tatlı” — the 427th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.