Açar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person singular indicative aorist of açmak
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Açar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 20th most common surname.
- TRTürkiye1 in 359(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 31K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 5.3K
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 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- 1 in 359 (inferred from the name graph)
228,386 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Acar in TR Türkiye, NL Netherlands, SE Sweden and 3 more.
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)
third-person singular indicative aorist of açmak
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Açar 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 | #20 | 228,386 | 1 in 359 | 228K | Acar | 139 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Acar | 8 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 50K | 195 | Acar | 4 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 8K | 1 | — | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 564 | 1 in 31K | 564 | Acar | 56 |
| SE Sweden | — | 537 | 1 in 19K | 537 | Acar | 28 |
| CY Cyprus | #247 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Acar | 16 |
| MD Moldova | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 1 | — | 4 |
228,386 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used surnames, 2025. 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: TÜİK NIP — most used surnames; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); e-services.md — living population register; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)
Açar is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Aviz, Alandroal; bef. 1492
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
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)
- Kayahanb. 1949TRnot in their usual nameTurkish singer (1949–2015)
- Ercan Acarb. 1956TRTurkish association football player (born 1956)
- Mehmet Açarb. 1963TRTurkish writer (born 1963)
- Yeliz Açarb. 1997TRTurkish-Azerbaijani association football player (born 1997)
- Selim AcarTRTurkish production designer
- Mikâil AcarTRTurkish botanist
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 6 sources across 3 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Açar mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person singular indicative aorist of açmak Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Açar have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 228 thousand people named Açar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled acar.
- Where is Açar most common?
- Açar is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 359 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Açar?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 228,386 people named Açar in 2025, about 1 in 359 residents.
- How common is Açar compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Açar is the 20th 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/a%C3%A7arThe 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, “Açar” — the 20th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.