Çelen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Yakışıklı delikanlı
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Çelen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 5.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 17K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 218K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Celen in BE Belgium, 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)
1. Yakışıklı delikanlı. 2. Tepelerin kar tutmayan kuytu yeri. 3. Açıkgöz, becerikli, kurnaz. 4. Evlerin dışında bulunan saçak. 5. Akıllı.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Çelen 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 | #561 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Çelen | 57 |
| BE Belgium | — | 684 | 1 in 17K | 684 | Celen | 7 |
| AR Argentina | — | 38 | 1 in 1.2M | 38 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 36 | 1 in 480K | 36 | Celen | 15 |
| BR Brazil | — | 33 | 1 in 6.4M | 56 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 218K | — | Çelen | 5 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 351K | listed | — | 1 |
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); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
- Hamdi Çelenb. 1892TRTurkish statesperson (1892–1957)
- İsmail Çelenb. 1985TRTurkish futsal player (born 1985)
- Ebru Celenb. 1997TRTurkish association football player (born 1997)
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 7 sources across 3 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Çelen mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Yakışıklı delikanlı.
- In which country does Çelen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Çelen in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled çelen.
- How common is the name Çelen?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 684 people named Çelen in 2008, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Çelen compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Çelen is the 561st most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A7elenThe 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, “Çelen” — the 561st most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.