Kuzu
surname · Latin script
Meaning: lamb
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kuzu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kuzu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 10K
- FIFinland1 in 111K
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
- 84 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
lamb
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kuzu 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 | #330 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Kuzu | 84 |
| FR France | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 496K | 26 | — | 2 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Kuzu | 10 |
| CY Cyprus | #575 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Kuzu | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 68 | 1 in 254K | 68 | Kuzu | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 51 | 1 in 165K | 51 | Kuzu | 10 |
| FI Finland | — | 50 | 1 in 111K | 50 | — | 3 |
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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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)
Kuzu is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of くず
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Kukusi
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Burhan Kuzub. 1955TRTurkish statesperson (1955–2020)
- Işınsu Kuzub. 1962TRTurkish researcher
- Tunahan Kuzub. 1981TRTurkish-Dutch statesperson (born 1981)
- Tahsin KuzuTRTurkish basketball referee
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 15 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 68 | #25,318 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 51 | #18,386 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 50 | #22,769 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 26 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | — | — |
| 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 | — | — |
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
- What does the name Kuzu mean, and where does it come from?
- lamb Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kuzu?
- A machine transcription gives /kuzu/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Kuzu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Kuzu in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kuzu.
- How common is the name Kuzu?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 68 people named Kuzu in 2007, about 1 in 254 thousand residents.
- How common is Kuzu compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Kuzu is the 330th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kuzu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kuzuThe 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, “Kuzu” — the 330th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.