Ersu

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Yiğitlerin soyundan gelen kimse

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
  • INIndia1 in 25M
  • DEGermany≈1 in 9.5Mas Ersue

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 Ersu 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.

India (measured from records)

53 people

Sources
31 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.6M (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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

Yiğitlerin soyundan gelen kimse.

Sources 1

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

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ersu 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 Ersu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India531 in 25M53—1
NL Netherlands111 in 1.6M11Ersu3
DE Germany≈8 est.≈1 in 9.5M—Ersu31
US United States≈1 est.≈1 in 270M—Ersu20
TR Türkiye≈1 est.≈1 in 72M—Ersu11

53 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)

Ersu is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye

    Also written Ersü

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ersü

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ersü

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Ersü

  • Bulgarian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria

    Also written Ерсу

24 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ersu 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 English, A Qiangic (Sino-Tibetan) language cluster, spoken by about 20,000 people in China.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

  • Erten Ersub. 1994TRTurkish association football player (born 1994)
  • Bahadır ErsuTRTurkish dentist and medical researcher

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 Ersu Bey,Dear Ersu Bey, (English)
InformalMerhaba Ersu,Hi Ersu, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Ersu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—73#28,049
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—53#42,648
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200711#62,081

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 Ersu?
A machine transcription gives /eɾsu/ (IPA) for Turkish.
What does the name Ersu mean?
Recorded meaning: Yiğitlerin soyundan gelen kimse.
In which country does Ersu have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 53 people named Ersu, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Ersu most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ersu is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 1.6 million people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ersu?
In India, the national register counted 53 people named Ersu, about 1 in 25 million residents.

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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, “Ersu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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