Tepe

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Tepe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: hill.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 3.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CYCyprus≈1 in 23K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 80K

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)

≈26,000 people, est.

Sources
84 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

hill

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tepe 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.

Where Tepe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#365≈26,000 est.≈1 in 3.1K—Tepe84
US United States—1,0831 in 307K1.1KTepe59
EG Egypt—≈230 est.≈1 in 445K—Tepe2
FR France—≈150 est.≈1 in 450K21Tepe1
BE Belgium—1291 in 91K196Tepe10
CH Switzerland—1051 in 80K105Tepe10
NL Netherlands—1051 in 165K105Tepe9
CY Cyprus—≈55 est.≈1 in 23K—Tepe8

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tepe is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Türkiye

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Tepé

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, United States, Türkiye, Guatemala

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Tepé

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Türkiye, United States

    Also written Tépé, Tepé

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Tépé

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Tepe is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of tepeō

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Serbo-Croatian, third-person singular present of tepsti

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Albanian, hillock, small hill, mound

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Māori, to congeal, to coagulate

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Spanish, piece of sod

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

180018501900195020002050Alfred Tepe, b. 1840Richard Tepe, b. 1864Peter Tepe, b. 1948Marlis Tepe, b. 1954Amanda Tepe, b. 1977Gökhan Tepe, b. 1978Leonie Tepe, b. 1995Efe Can Tepe, b. 2000Muhammet Taha Tepe, b. 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 21 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Tepe
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.1K#23,473
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.1K#23,472
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001K#23,019
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—196#9,217
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008129#12,559
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024105#10,642
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007105#18,311
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199121—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19819—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19719—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19613—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19413—

Reference works 3

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 Tepe mean, and where does it come from?
hill Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Tepe have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Tepe in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tepe.
How common is the name Tepe?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,083 people named Tepe in 2010, about 1 in 307 thousand residents.
How common is Tepe compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Tepe is the 365th 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, “Tepe” — the 365th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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