Bulut
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a cloud
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/buɫ̩ut/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bulut is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 31st most common surname.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 441(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 20K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 2.2K
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
- 145 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 441 (inferred from the name graph)
≈190,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
a cloud
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bulut 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 | #31 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 441 | #89 | Bulut | 135 |
| AF Afghanistan | #392 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Bulut | 5 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 383 | Bulut | 3 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Bulut | 18 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | 30 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 858 | 1 in 20K | 858 | Bulut | 36 |
| CY Cyprus | #80 | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Bulut | 14 |
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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bulut is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, Atmosferdeki su damlacıkları ve buz taneciklerinin görülebilir yoğunluk kazanmasıyla oluşan, biçimleri, yükseklikleri ve yol açtıkları hava olaylarıyla birbirinden ayrılan yığınlar.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In trk-pro, cloud
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In zlm, bundling up; wrapping up loosely or carelessly; bustle about, fuss
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In btd, tangled, of rope, thread, thoughts
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In bbc, tangled, of hair or cordage
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Talât Bulutb. 1956TRTurkish actor (born 1956)
- Sunay Bulutb. 1967BGTurkish athlete (born 1967)
- Yiğit Bulutb. 1972TRTurkish journalist (1972–2025)
- Erol Bulutb. 1975TRTurkish association football player and manager (born 1975)
- Pınar Bulutb. 1982TRTurkish screenwriter (born 1982)
- Umut Bulutb. 1983TRTurkish association football player (born 1983)
- Dušan Domović Bulutb. 1985RSSerbian basketball player (born 1985)
- Gamze Bulutb. 1992TRTurkish middle-distance runner (born 1992)
- Kerem Bulutb. 1992AUTurkish-Australian association football player (born 1992)
- Onur Bulutb. 1994DETurkish association football player (born 1994)
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)
Attested in 41 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 858 | #2,062 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 383 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 190 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 67 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 2 | — |
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
- What does the name Bulut mean, and where does it come from?
- a cloud Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bulut?
- A machine transcription gives /buɫ̩ut/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Bulut have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 186 thousand people named Bulut in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bulut.
- How common is the name Bulut?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 858 people named Bulut in 2007, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Bulut compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Bulut is the 31st most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bulut?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bulutThe 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, “Bulut” — the 31st most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.