Sertel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Katı, sert, acımasız kimse
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/seɾtel/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sertel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 734K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 928K
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.6M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sertel 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 734K (inferred from the name graph)
22 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Katı, sert, acımasız kimse.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sertel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 22 | 1 in 1.7M | 12 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 11 | 1 in 928K | 11 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 11 | 1 in 1.6M | 11 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 8 | 1 in 734K | 8 | — | — |
| MK North Macedonia | 6as Сертел | 1 in 354K | 6 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | — |
22 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); State Statistical Office — living population names; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zekeriya Sertelb. 1890TRTurkish journalist (1890–1980)
- Sabiha Sertelb. 1895TRTurkish journalist (1895–1968)
- Yıldız Sertelb. 1922TRTurkish investigative journalist (born 1922–2009)
- Murat R. Sertelb. 1942TRTurkish economist (1942–2003)
- Atilla Sertelb. 1956TRTurkish journalist (born 1956)
- Ezgi Sertelb. 1981TRTurkish actor (born 1981)
- Cemali̇ Sertelb. 2000TRTurkish association football player (born 2000)
- Necla SertelTRTurkish actress
- Elif SertelTRTurkish researcher
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 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 12 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 12 | #123,153 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 11 | #37,313 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 11 | #61,403 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 10 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 10 | #137,908 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8 | #48,429 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
Reference works 4
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Sertel?
- A machine transcription gives /seɾtel/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Sertel mean?
- Recorded meaning: Katı, sert, acımasız kimse.
- In which country does Sertel have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 22 people named Sertel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sertel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sertel is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 734 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sertel?
- In Poland, the national register counted 22 people named Sertel in 2026, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Sertel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sertelThe 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, “Sertel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.