Özer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Yiğit, doğru kimse (TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: CBG Familienamenbank, 2007
/œzæɾ/(recorded in a dictionary) Turkish · from Wiktionary
Özer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 37th most common surname. Özer is also written Озер in Cyrillic.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 460(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 1.4Kfew records
- ATAustria≈1 in 15Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Özer itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 211 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 462 (inferred from the name graph)
≈190,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Özer in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ozer in FR France, 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.
How to pronounce Özer
- Turkish:/œzæɾ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Yiğit, doğru kimse.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Özer is found
(measured from records)Özer 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 | #37 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 462 | — | Özer | 122 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Özer | 72 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 56K | 224 | Ozer | 162 |
| CY Cyprus | #76 | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Özer | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 621 | 1 in 28K | 621 | Ozer | 40 |
| AT Austria | #941 | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 3 | Özer | 25 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 21K | listed | Özer | 4 |
| DK Denmark | — | 251 | 1 in 23K | 251 | — | — |
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); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)- Zerrin Özerb. 1957TRTurkish singer (born 1957)
- Cem Özerb. 1959TRTurkish actor (born 1959)
- Serdar Özerb. 1980TRTurkish actor (born 1980)
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Özer?
- In Turkish /œzæɾ/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Özer mean?
- Recorded meaning: Yiğit, doğru kimse.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Özer?
- Mondonomo estimates about 185 thousand people named Özer in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled özer. After it come Germany, France, Cyprus and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Özer?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 621 people named Özer in 2007, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
- How common is Özer compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Özer is the 37th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Özer?
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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%B6zerThe 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, “Özer” — the 37th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.