Çilingir
surname · Latin script
Meaning: locksmith (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ʃilinɟiɾ/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Çilingir is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 410K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 560K
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)
- Record sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Cilingir in FR France, US United States, NL Netherlands.
How to pronounce Çilingir
- Turkish:/ʃilinɟiɾ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)locksmith
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Çilingir is found
(measured from records)Çilingir 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 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Çilingir | 46 |
| FR France | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | 24 | Cilingir | 47 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 382K | — | Cilingir | 5 |
| US United States | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 16M | listed | Cilingir | 46 |
| BE Belgium | 20 | 1 in 586K | 20 | Çilingir | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 15 | 1 in 560K | 15 | Çilingir | 7 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 295K | — | Çilingir | 4 |
| EE Estonia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 409K | 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)- Osin Cilingirb. 1945TRTurkish writer (born 1945)
- Ismail Cilingirb. 1976TRTurkish boxer (born 1976)
- Erşen Çilingirb. 1983TRTurkish association football player (born 1983)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Çilingir mean, and where does it come from?
- locksmith Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Çilingir?
- In Turkish /ʃilinɟiɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Çilingir?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.1 thousand people named Çilingir in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled çilingir. After it come France, Netherlands, United States and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Çilingir?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 20 people named Çilingir in 2008, about 1 in 586 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A7ilingirThe 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, “Çilingir”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.