Aydın
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Işıklı, pırıltılı, aydınlık
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/ajdɯn/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Aydın is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common surname.
- CYCyprus≈1 in 1.1Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 3.6Kfew records
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 6.3Kfew 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 Aydın itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- #648 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
581,387 named Aydin, 2025
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)1. Işıklı, pırıltılı, aydınlık. 2. Açık, kolay anlaşılır. 3. Öğrenimi, bilgisi ve görgüsü olan, ileri düşünceli kimse. 4. Umut veren. 5. Mehtap.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Aydın 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 | #10 | 581,387as Aydin | 1 in 141 | 581K | Aydın | 129 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Aydın | 4 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 363 | Aydın | 29 |
| CY Cyprus | #52 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Aydın | 16 |
| BE Belgium | #942 | 1,189as Aydin | 1 in 9.9K | 1.8K | Aydın | 17 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 1,122as Aydin | 1 in 7.5K | 1.1K | Aydın | 12 |
581,387 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used surnames, 2025, counting the spelling aydin. 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: TÜİK NIP — most used surnames; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Aydın is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In gag, bright, luminescent
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Azerbaijani, bright
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In otk, moonlight; brilliance
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
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)- Koray Aydınb. 1955TRTurkish statesperson (born 1955)
- Ebru Nil Aydinb. 1965TRnot in their usual nameTurkish actor (born 1965)
- Emre Aydınb. 1981TRTurkish singer (born 1981)
- Aynur Aydınb. 1985TRTurkish singer (born 1985)
- Aras Aydınb. 1989TRTurkish actor (born 1989)
- İlayda Aydınb. 1994TRTurkish actor (born 1994)
- Oğuz Aydınb. 2000NLTurkish-Dutch association football player (born 2000)
- İlkin Aydınb. 2000TRTurkish volleyball player (born 2000)
- Mehmet Can Aydınb. 2002DETurkish-German association football player (born 2002)
- Eyüp Aydınb. 2004DETurkish association football player (born 2004)
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Aydın?
- In Turkish /ajdɯn/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Aydın mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Işıklı, pırıltılı, aydınlık.
- In which country does Aydın have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 581 thousand people named Aydin, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Aydın?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 581,387 people named Aydin in 2025, about 1 in 141 residents.
- How common is Aydın compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Aydın is the 10th 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/ayd%C4%B1nThe 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, “Aydın” — the 10th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.