Tuğrul
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Yırtıcı bir kuş (TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary))
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/tuːɾˈʊɫ/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Tuğrul is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country: 55 people, counted by the Meertens NVB.
- NLNetherlands1 in 314K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 510K
- DKDenmark1 in 652K
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- 1 in 314K (inferred from the name graph)
55 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tugrul in DE Germany, NL Netherlands, PL Poland.
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.
How to pronounce Tuğrul
- Turkish:/tuːɾˈʊɫ/(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)Yırtıcı bir kuş.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tuğrul 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 55 | 1 in 314K | 55 | Tugrul | 5 |
| SE Sweden | 20 | 1 in 510K | 20 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 11 | 1 in 3.5M | 11 | Tugrul | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 9 | 1 in 652K | 9 | — | — |
| DE Germany | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 40M | listed | Tugrul | 69 |
55 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018), counting the spelling tuğrul. 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: the de-munich-vornamen register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)- Tuğrul Türkeşb. 1954TRTurkish statesperson (born 1954)
- Tuğrul Tülekb. 1976TRTurkish actor (born 1976)
- Tuğrul Eratb. 1992DETurkish-Azerbaijani association football player (born 1992)
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Tuğrul?
- In Turkish /tuːɾˈʊɫ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Tuğrul a male or female name?
- Tuğrul is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Tuğrul mean?
- Recorded meaning: Yırtıcı bir kuş.
- Which countries have the most people named Tuğrul?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 55 people named Tuğrul, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tugrul. After it come Sweden, Poland, Denmark and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Tuğrul most common?
- Tuğrul is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 314 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tuğrul?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 55 people named Tuğrul, about 1 in 314 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tuğrul?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tu%C4%9FrulThe 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, “Tuğrul” — ranked 6303rd in the Netherlands (Meertens NVB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.