Koyun
surname · Latin script
Meaning: sheep
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kojun/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Koyun is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 4.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 50K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 78K
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
- 66 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
sheep
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Koyun 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 | #469 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Koyun | 66 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Koyun | 1 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 5.1M | — | Koyun | 10 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 45 | 1 in 187K | 45 | Koyun | 4 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Koyun | 4 |
| DK Denmark | — | 6 | 1 in 978K | 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Engin Koyunb. 1970TRTurkish businessperson (born 1970)
- Alim Koyunb. 1984TRTurkish association football player (born 1984)
- Samet Koyunb. 1990TRTurkish badminton player (born 1990)
- Bilge Su Koyunb. 1999TRTurkish association football player (born 1999)
- Zeynep Koyunb. 2000TRTurkish association football player (born 2000)
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 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 45 | #20,234 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 6 | #58,046 |
Reference works 4
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Koyun mean, and where does it come from?
- sheep Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Koyun?
- A machine transcription gives /kojun/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Koyun have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Koyun in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled koyun.
- How common is the name Koyun?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 45 people named Koyun in 2024, about 1 in 187 thousand residents.
- How common is Koyun compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Koyun is the 469th 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/koyunThe 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, “Koyun” — the 469th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.