Sungur

surname · Latin script

Meaning: 1. Soğukkanlı, sakin kimse

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

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

Sungur is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 5.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CYCyprus≈1 in 30K
  • ATAustria≈1 in 33K

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)

≈16,000 people, est.

Sources
80 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

recorded in Turkish

1. Soğukkanlı, sakin kimse. 2. Akdoğan.

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)

Sungur 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 Sungur is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#564≈16,000 est.≈1 in 5.3K—Sungur80
AT Austria—≈270 est.≈1 in 33K2——
DZ Algeria—≈160 est.≈1 in 271K—Sungur2
FR France—≈130 est.≈1 in 527K16Sungur2
NL Netherlands—831 in 208K83Sungur13
CH Switzerland—461 in 183K46Sungur9
CY Cyprus—≈42 est.≈1 in 30K—Sungur7

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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sungur is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Türkiye, United States, Austria

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Süngür, Sunğur, Suenguer, Sungür, Sünğur

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Süngür, Sungür

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, India

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Süngür, Sunğur

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Sungür

  • Croatian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Bulgaria, Netherlands

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Сунгур, Sunğur, Süngür

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Süngur

  • Russian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Türkiye, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Uzbek, Ukrainian

    Also written Сунгур

29 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)

Sungur 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 Russian, Sungur Semenovich Sokovnin. 1614.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

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)

1850190019502000Ahmet Sungur, b. 1894Zati Sungur, b. 1898Mehmet Emin Sungur, b. 1936Suat Sungur, b. 1961Ahu Sungur, b. 1981Feridun Sungur, b. 1984Hatice Sungur, b. 1984Ceyda Sungur, b. 1986

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)

FormalSayın Sungur Bey,Dear Sungur Bey, (English)
InformalMerhaba Sungur,Hi Sungur, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.

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 Sungur?
A machine transcription gives /sʊnɡˈʊr/ (IPA) for Turkish.
What does the name Sungur mean?
Recorded meaning: 1. Soğukkanlı, sakin kimse.
In which country does Sungur have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Sungur in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sungur.
How common is the name Sungur?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 83 people named Sungur in 2007, about 1 in 208 thousand residents.
How common is Sungur compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Sungur is the 564th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Sungur” — the 564th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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