Özer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Yiğit, doğru kimse
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
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.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 479(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 16K
- NLNetherlands1 in 28K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 211 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 479 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ozer in FR France, NL Netherlands, IL Israel.
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)
Yiğit, doğru kimse.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(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 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 479 | — | Özer | 122 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Özer | 72 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 52K | 224 | Ozer | 162 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Özer | 11 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | Ozer | 28 |
| AT Austria | #941 | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 3 | Özer | 25 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 621 | 1 in 28K | 621 | Ozer | 40 |
| CY Cyprus | #76 | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Özer | 11 |
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). 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)
- Tülay Özerb. 1946TRTurkish singer (born 1946)
- Zerrin Özerb. 1957TRTurkish singer (born 1957)
- Cem Özerb. 1959TRTurkish actor (born 1959)
- Selda Özerb. 1961TRTurkish actor (born 1961)
- Mahmut Özerb. 1970TRTurkish electrical engineer (born 1970)
- Serdar Özerb. 1980TRTurkish actor (born 1980)
- Şehmus Özerb. 1980TRTurkish association football player (1980–2016)
- Kenan Özerb. 1987TRTurkish association football player (born 1987)
- Aykut Özerb. 1993DETurkish association football player (born 1993)
- Berke Özerb. 2000TRTurkish association football player (born 2000)
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 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 621 | #3,008 |
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 Özer mean?
- Recorded meaning: Yiğit, doğru kimse.
- In which country does Özer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 171 thousand people named Özer in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled özer.
- 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.
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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 2026-10-10.