Özen
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Özen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 91st most common surname. Recorded meaning: Attention and care given to a task at hand; pains.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 868(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 97K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 5.6K
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 Özen 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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 868 (inferred from the name graph)
≈94,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ozen in FR France, US United States, NL Netherlands.
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)
Attention and care given to a task at hand; pains.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Özen 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 | #91 | ≈94,000 est. | ≈1 in 868 | — | Özen | 109 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,070as Osen | 1 in 5.1K | 1.1K | — | 5 |
| FR France | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 250 | Ozen | 129 |
| US United States | — | 600as Sion | 1 in 554K | 789 | Ozen | 123 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 24 | — | — |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Özen | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 266 | 1 in 65K | 266 | Ozen | 25 |
| CY Cyprus | #221 | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Özen | 11 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Özen is also recorded in 3 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. Bir işin elden geldiğince iyi olması için gösterilen çaba. 2. İçerlek, tam orta, en içeride olan. 3. İlk söz. 4. Birbirine yakın iki dağın arasındaki uzaklık, ara. 5. Dere, ırmak.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary, per-gender-row harvest)
In crh, river
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In otk, the heart or centre (of something)
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
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)
- Sinan Özenb. 1964TRTurkish singer (born 1964)
- Ali Özenb. 1971TRTurkish wrestler (born 1971)
- Britta Özen-Kleineb. 1973DEGerman classical archaeologist
- Özlem Özenb. 1978BEBelgian politician
- Tülin Özenb. 1979TRTurkish actor (born 1979)
- Gökhan Özenb. 1979TRTurkish singer (born 1979)
- Eren Özenb. 1983TRTurkish association football player (born 1983)
- Mahmut Özenb. 1988TRTurkish association football player (born 1988)
- Bahadır Özenb. 2000TRTurkish chess player (born 2000)
- Deniz Özenb. 2001TRTurkish chess player (born 2001)
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 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2007 | 2 | #1,288 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2007 | 1 | #2,696 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2004 | 1 | #2,585 |
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 Özen mean, and where does it come from?
- Attention and care given to a task at hand; pains. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Özen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 94 thousand people named Özen in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled özen.
- How common is the name Özen?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 266 people named Özen in 2007, about 1 in 65 thousand residents.
- How common is Özen compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Özen is the 91st most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Özen?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B6zenThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Özen” — the 91st most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.