Dündar

surname · Latin script

Meaning: 1. bk. Dindar2. T. Eski ordu düzeninde artçı birlik

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/døndˈar/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Dündar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CYCyprus≈1 in 25K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 51K

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)

≈47,000 people, est.

Sources
86 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Dundar in US United States, AZ Azerbaijan.

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)

recorded in Turkish

1. bk. Dindar2. T. Eski ordu düzeninde artçı birlik.

Sources 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dündar 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.

Where Dündar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#205≈47,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K—Dündar82
FR France—≈200 est.≈1 in 345K41Dündar2
RO Romania—≈180 est.≈1 in 121K—Dündar5
CH Switzerland—1661 in 51K166Dündar6
US United States—≈100 est.≈1 in 3.3MlistedDundar86
AZ Azerbaijan—≈98 est.≈1 in 104K—Dundar3
CY Cyprus—≈50 est.≈1 in 25K—Dündar8

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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Dündar is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Türkiye, Australia

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Dundar, Duendar

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Brazil, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Dundar

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Dundar

  • Russian surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Türkiye, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Дундар, Дундарь, Дюндар, Dundar

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye, Belgium, United States

    Also written Dundar

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, United States, Syria

    Also written Dundar

  • Japanese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Japan

    Also written Dundar

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Ali Dündar, b. 1924Uğur Dündar, b. 1943Orhan Dündar, b. 1953Ümit Dündar, b. 1955Can Dündar, b. 1961Munis Dündar, b. 1961Fuat Dündar, b. 1971Emre Dündar, b. 1972Özlem Özgül Dündar, b. 1983Eda Erdem, b. 1987

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)

FormalSayın Dündar,Dear , (English)
InformalSayın Dündar,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Dündar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024166#7,292

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 Dündar?
A machine transcription gives /døndˈar/ (IPA) for Turkish.
What does the name Dündar mean?
Recorded meaning: 1. bk. Dindar2. T. Eski ordu düzeninde artçı birlik.
In which country does Dündar have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 47 thousand people named Dündar in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dündar.
How common is the name Dündar?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 166 people named Dündar in 2024, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
How common is Dündar compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Dündar is the 205th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Dündar” — the 205th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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