Oruç
surname · Latin script
Meaning: fasting, abstinence or mortification for religious reasons, especially abstinence from food
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: CBG Familienamenbank, 2007
/oˈɾut͡ʃ/(recorded in a dictionary) Turkish · from Wiktionary
Oruç 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)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 13Kfew records
- DKDenmark1 in 61K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Oruç itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈52,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Oruc in DE Germany, NL Netherlands, IQ Iraq, Oruj in AZ Azerbaijan and Oruč in BA Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)fasting, abstinence or mortification for religious reasons, especially abstinence from food
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Oruç is found
(measured from records)Oruç 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 | #194 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Oruç | 68 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Oruc | 74 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 148 | Oruj | 24 |
| IQ Iraq | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Oruc | 5 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Oruč | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 207 | 1 in 83K | 207 | Oruc | 18 |
| DK Denmark | — | 97 | 1 in 61K | 97 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Oruç | 4 |
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); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Oruç is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. Tanrı'ya ibadet amacıyla yeme, içme vb. şeylerden belli bir süre veya biçimlerde kendini alıkoyma.2. Çok sevilen veya istenen şeylerden uzak durma.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)- Arif Oruçb. 1893TRTurkish journalist (1893–1956)
- Tülay Hatimoğullarıb. 1977TRnot in their usual nameTurkish economist and statesperson (born 1977)
- Hüseyin Oruçb. 1991TRTurkish badminton player (born 1991)
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Oruç mean, and where does it come from?
- fasting, abstinence or mortification for religious reasons, especially abstinence from food Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Oruç?
- In Turkish /oˈɾut͡ʃ/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Oruç?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named Oruç in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oruç. After it come Germany, Azerbaijan, Iraq and Bosnia & Herzegovina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Oruç?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 207 people named Oruç in 2007, about 1 in 83 thousand residents.
- How common is Oruç compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Oruç is the 194th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oru%C3%A7The 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, “Oruç” — the 194th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.