Doğu
surname · Latin script
Meaning: east
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/dou/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Doğu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- CYCyprus≈1 in 5.8Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 6.6K
- DEGermany≈1 in 220Kfew records
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)
- Record sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
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)Locally spelled Dogu in DE Germany, AT Austria.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)east
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Doğu is found
(measured from records)Doğu 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.
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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Doğu is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, Güneşin doğduğu yön, gündoğusu.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)- Yaşar Doğub. 1913TRTurkish wrestler (1913–1961)
- Cengiz Doğub. 1945TRTurkish-German poet (1945–2019)
- Ahmet Doğub. 1973TRTurkish wrestler (born 1973)
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Doğu mean, and where does it come from?
- east Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Doğu?
- In Turkish /dou/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Doğu?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Doğu in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled doğu. After it come Germany, Cyprus, France and Austria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Doğu?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 48 people named Doğu in 2008, about 1 in 244 thousand residents.
- How common is Doğu compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Doğu is the 759th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/do%C4%9FuThe 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, “Doğu” — the 759th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.