Altuğ
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Kırmızı tuğ
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/aɫtˈʊː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Altuğ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 84K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 213K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 350K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 59 (measured from records)
- 1 in 84K (inferred from the name graph)
66 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Altug in PL Poland.
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)Kırmızı tuğ.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Altuğ 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 66 | 1 in 84K | 66 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 48 | 1 in 213K | 48 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 26 | 1 in 451K | 26 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 24 | 1 in 350K | 24 | — | 4 |
| PL Poland | 7 | 1 in 5.5M | 7 | Altug | 1 |
66 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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)- Yılmaz Altuğb. 1925TRTurkish statesperson (1925–2014)
- Kurtul Altuğb. 1935TRTurkish journalist (1935–2016)
- Şevket Altuğb. 1943TRTurkish actor (born 1943)
- Ömer Altuğb. 1947TRTurkish diplomat (born 1947)
- Esen Altuğb. 1963TRTurkish diplomat (born 1963)
- Turgut Altuğb. 1965DEGerman politician
- Emre Altuğb. 1970TRTurkish actor and singer (born 1970)
- Pınar Altuğb. 1974TRTurkish actor (born 1973)
- Hatice Altuğb. 1978TRTurkish-American bioengineer (born 1978)
- İrem Altuğb. 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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #191,867 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #303,558 |
Reference works 4
- 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)
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
- How do you pronounce Altuğ?
- A machine transcription gives /aɫtˈʊː/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Altuğ mean?
- Recorded meaning: Kırmızı tuğ.
- In which country does Altuğ have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 66 people named Altuğ, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Altuğ most common?
- Altuğ is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 84 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Altuğ?
- In Finland, the national register counted 66 people named Altuğ, about 1 in 84 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/altu%C4%9FThe 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, “Altuğ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.