Kandemir
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Güçlü soydan gelen kimse
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kandemˈɪr/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kandemir is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 15K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 18K
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)
- Sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈50,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Güçlü soydan gelen kimse.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kandemir 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 | #202 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Kandemir | 93 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Kandemir | 2 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Kandemir | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 291 | 1 in 59K | 291 | Kandemir | 33 |
| FR France | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 242K | 68 | Kandemir | 2 |
| BE Belgium | — | 208 | 1 in 56K | 311 | Kandemir | 17 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Kandemir | 6 |
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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ahmet Kandemirb. 1970TRTurkish basketball player and coach (born 1970)
- Aslıhan Kandemirb. 1972TRTurkish actor (born 1972)
- Hülya Kandemirb. 1975DETurkish-German writer (born 1975)
- Erkan Kandemirb. 1981TRTurkish statesperson (born 1981)
- Hüseyin Kandemirb. 1986TRTurkish rower (born 1986)
- Ömer Kandemirb. 1993TRTurkish association football player (born 1993)
- Eylül Kandemirb. 2001TRTurkish actor (born 2001)
- Helin Kandemirb. 2004TRTurkish actor and fashion model (born 2004)
- Mahmut KandemirTRTurkish electrical engineer
- Ali KandemirTRTurkish botanist
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 18 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 311 | #5,465 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 291 | #7,111 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 208 | #8,099 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 68 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 1 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | — | — |
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 Kandemir?
- A machine transcription gives /kandemˈɪr/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Kandemir mean?
- Recorded meaning: Güçlü soydan gelen kimse.
- In which country does Kandemir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 50 thousand people named Kandemir in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kandemir.
- How common is the name Kandemir?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 291 people named Kandemir in 2007, about 1 in 59 thousand residents.
- How common is Kandemir compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Kandemir is the 202nd 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/kandemirThe 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, “Kandemir” — the 202nd most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.