Tatlı

surname · Latin script

Meaning: sweet; having a pleasant taste, akin to that of sugar

Tatlı is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 3.6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CYCyprus≈1 in 7.1Kfew records
  • NLNetherlands≈1 in 350Kfew records

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)

≈24,000 people, est.

Record sources
56 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)

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

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Tatlı is found

(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.

Where Tatlı is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#427≈24,000 est.≈1 in 3.6KTatlı56
CY Cyprus#836≈190 est.≈1 in 7.1KTatlı5
DZ Algeria—≈67 est.≈1 in 702KTatlı2
NL Netherlands—≈51 est.≈1 in 350KTatlı4
SA Saudi Arabia—≈40 est.≈1 in 888KTatlı3
CH Switzerland—≈12 est.≈1 in 742KTatlı3

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)
19401960198020002020İbrahim Tatlıses, b. 1952Ferdi Tatlı, b. 1979Efe Tatlı, b. 2002
  • İbrahim Tatlısesb. 1952TRnot in their usual nameTurkish musician (born 1952)
  • Ferdi Tatlıb. 1979TRTurkish association football player (born 1979)
  • Efe Tatlıb. 2002TRTurkish association football player (born 2002)

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Tatlı under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

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).
Which countries have the most people with the surname Tatlı?
Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Tatlı in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tatlı. After it come Cyprus, Algeria, Netherlands and Saudi Arabia; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Tatlı?
Mondonomo estimates about 24,000 people in Türkiye have Tatlı as their first surname, about 1 in 3.6 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 2026-10-13.

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