Serbest
surname · Latin script
Meaning: free (unconstrained)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/seɾbest/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Serbest is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. In North Macedonia it is the 36th most common surname.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 7.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- MKNorth Macedonia≈1 in 468
- CYCyprus≈1 in 50K
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
- 63 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 468 (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
North Macedonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
free (unconstrained)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Serbest 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 | #815 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Serbest | 63 |
| MK North Macedonia | #36 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 468 | — | Serbest | 3 |
| BE Belgium | — | 195 | 1 in 60K | 271 | Serbest | 22 |
| IQ Iraq | — | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 398K | — | Serbest | 10 |
| FR France | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Serbest | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 30 | 1 in 182K | 36 | Serbest | 3 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Serbest | 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Serbest 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 Kurdish, Free, liberated, independent, one who bows to no one
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Kurdish, free
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)
- Dilek Serbestb. 1981TRTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1981)
- Özkan Serbestb. 1986TRTurkish association football player (born 1986)
- Sevim Sinmez Serbestb. 1987TRTurkish athlete (born 1987)
- Tarkan Serbestb. 1994ATTurkish-Austrian association football player (born 1994)
- Safa Serbestb. 1995TRTurkish association football player (born 1989)
- Nurullah Serbestb. 1998TRTurkish association football player (born 1998)
- Saskia Serbestb. 2001DEGerman ice hockey goaltender
- Mücahit Serbestb. 2004TRTurkish association football player (born 2004)
- Burak SerbestTRTurkish film director
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 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 271 | #6,415 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 195 | #8,628 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 30 | #35,014 |
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 Serbest mean, and where does it come from?
- free (unconstrained) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Serbest?
- A machine transcription gives /seɾbest/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Serbest have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Serbest in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled serbest.
- How common is the name Serbest?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 195 people named Serbest in 2008, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
- How common is Serbest compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Serbest is the 815th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Serbest?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/serbestThe 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, “Serbest” — the 815th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.