Meral
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Geyik, ceylan
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Meral is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 768(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 731K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 3.2K
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
- 117 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 768 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Geyik, ceylan.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meral 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 | #209 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 768 | #97 | Meral | 100 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Meral | 6 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 30 | — | — |
| FR France | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 112K | 84 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 35 | Meral | 16 |
| US United States | — | 455 | 1 in 731K | 426 | Meral | 117 |
| CY Cyprus | #199 | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Meral | 12 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Meral is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom. türkischer Herkunft (türk. meral »Damhirschkuh«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In English, Pertaining to the merus or meropodite.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rgn, blackbird
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)
- Meral Menderesb. 1933TRTurkish opera singer (1933–2011)
- Meral Çetinkayab. 1945TRTurkish actor (born 1945)
- Meral simerb. 1948TRTurkish animator and director (born 1948)
- Meral Hussein-Ece, Baroness Hussein-Eceb. 1953GBBritish politician (born 1953)
- Meral Akşenerb. 1956TRTurkish historian, acafemic and politician
- Meral Okayb. 1959TRTurkish actor and screenwriter (1959–2012)
- Meral Perinb. 1965DETurkish-German actress
- Meral Tasbasb. 1979SESwedish television personality, singer and actress of Turkish origin
- Meral erezTRTurkish animator and director
- Meral AkıncıTRTurkish psychologist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 49 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 84 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 35 | #33,202 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Meral mean?
- Recorded meaning: Geyik, ceylan.
- What are other forms of the name Meral?
- In the etymology graph, Maral is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Meral a male or female name?
- Meral is a female 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.
- In which country does Meral have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 107 thousand people named Meral in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meral.
- How common is the name Meral?
- In the United States, the national register counted 455 people named Meral in 2020, about 1 in 731 thousand residents.
- How common is Meral compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Meral is the 209th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meralThe 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, “Meral” — the 209th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.