Sümer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Sumer (a historical region occupied by the earliest known ancient civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia in modern southern Iraq)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sümer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 39K
- SISlovenia1 in 96K
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
- 71 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sumer in IN India, US United States.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Sumer (a historical region occupied by the earliest known ancient civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia in modern southern Iraq)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sümer 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 | #420 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Sümer | 71 |
| IN India | — | 1,343 | 1 in 987K | 1.3K | Sumer | 27 |
| US United States | — | 175 | 1 in 1.9M | 1.2K | Sumer | 70 |
| IQ Iraq | — | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 486K | — | Sümer | 3 |
| BR Brazil | — | 72 | 1 in 2.9M | 72 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 68 | 1 in 254K | 68 | Sümer | 11 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 66 | 1 in 127K | 66 | Sümer | 4 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Sümer | 7 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 22 | 1 in 96K | 22 | — | 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Sümer 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, IV. bin yılın ikinci yarısında, aşağı Mezopotamya’da yaşamış olan bir kavim.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Turkish, IV. bin yılın ikinci yarısında Aşağı Mezopotamya´da yaşamış olan kavim.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary, per-gender-row harvest)
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)
- Cevdet Sümerb. 1922TRTurkish equestrian (1922–1967)
- Faruk Sümerb. 1924TRTurkish historian (1924–1995)
- Adalet Ağaoğlub. 1929TRnot in their usual nameTurkish novelist (1929–2020)
- Güner Sümerb. 1936TRTurkish actor (1936–1977)
- Dinçer Sümerb. 1938TRTurkish actor (1938–2019)
- Özkan Sümerb. 1940TRTurkish association football player (1940–2020)
- Zerrin Sümerb. 1945TRTurkish actor (born 1945)
- Mutlu Sümerb. 1945TRTurkish engineer (born 1945)
- Sevil Sümerb. 1969TRTurkish sociologist (born 1969)
- Erdal SümerTRTurkish production designer
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 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 68 | #25,248 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 66 | #15,172 |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
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 Sümer mean, and where does it come from?
- Sumer (a historical region occupied by the earliest known ancient civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia in modern southern Iraq) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Sümer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Sümer in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sümer.
- How common is the name Sümer?
- In India, the national register counted 1,343 people named Sümer, about 1 in 987 thousand residents.
- How common is Sümer compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Sümer is the 420th 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, “Sümer” — the 420th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.