Menderes

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Bir akarsu yatağının az eğimli koyak tabanlarında ve ova düzlüklerinde çizdiği S harfine benzeyen kıvrım

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

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

Menderes is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 9.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • XKKosovo≈1 in 8.6K
  • ATAustria≈1 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)

≈9,000 people, est.

Sources
56 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 8.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Kosovo, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Turkish

Bir akarsu yatağının az eğimli koyak tabanlarında ve ova düzlüklerinde çizdiği S harfine benzeyen kıvrım.

Sources 1

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

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Menderes 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 Menderes is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye≈9,000 est.≈1 in 9.1K—Menderes56
XK Kosovo≈220 est.≈1 in 8.6K195—3
AT Austria≈170 est.≈1 in 51K3——
BE Belgium≈110 est.≈1 in 105K—Menderes5
NL Netherlands321 in 540K32Menderes11
CY Cyprus≈23 est.≈1 in 55K—Menderes5

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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)

Menderes is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Türkiye

    Also written Mendérès

  • Bulgarian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Türkiye, Croatia

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian

    Also written Мендерес

39 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)

Menderes 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 English, Turkish political leader; river, Asia

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, Minor

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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)

1940196019802000Menderes Samancılar, b. 1954Menderes Türel, b. 1964Menderes Bağcı, b. 1984Menderes Çağlar, b. 1999

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Menderes
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—195#2,187
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—32#8,772
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—19#20,122
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)19919—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)19769—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)19928—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)19827—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)19687—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)19677—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)19627—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)19716—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)19666—

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 Menderes?
A machine transcription gives /mændeɾˈɛs/ (IPA) for Turkish.
Is Menderes a male or female name?
Menderes is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Menderes mean?
Recorded meaning: Bir akarsu yatağının az eğimli koyak tabanlarında ve ova düzlüklerinde çizdiği S harfine benzeyen kıvrım.
In which country does Menderes have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 9.0 thousand people named Menderes in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled menderes.
How common is the name Menderes?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 32 people named Menderes, about 1 in 540 thousand 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, “Menderes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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