Sürmeli
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Gözleri sürme çekilmiş gibi güzel olan kimse
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/sˈørmelɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sürmeli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 9.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 84K
- NLNetherlands1 in 258K
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)
- Record sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,800 people, est.
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 Surmeli in US United States.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)1. Gözleri sürme çekilmiş gibi güzel olan kimse. 2. Bir tür buğday.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sürmeli 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 | #917 | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | — | Sürmeli | 38 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 67 | 1 in 258K | 67 | Sürmeli | 5 |
| US United States | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 11M | listed | Surmeli | 35 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 703K | — | Sürmeli | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 22 | 1 in 382K | 22 | Sürmeli | 3 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Sürmeli | 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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)- Fevzi Sürmelib. 1946TRTurkish economist (born 1946)
- Ali Sürmelib. 1959TRTurkish actor of Zaza ancestry (born 1959)
- Muammer Sürmelib. 1973TRTurkish association football player (born 1973)
- Bünyamin Sürmelib. 1975TRTurkish journalist (born 1975)
- Kürşad Sürmelib. 1995NLTurkish-Dutch association football player (born 1995)
- Mesut SürmeliTRTurkish actor
- Nur Basak SurmeliTRTurkish 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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 67 | #25,612 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 22 | #34,100 |
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 Sürmeli?
- A machine transcription gives /sˈørmelɪ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Sürmeli mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Gözleri sürme çekilmiş gibi güzel olan kimse.
- In which country does Sürmeli have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.8 thousand people named Sürmeli in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sürmeli.
- How common is the name Sürmeli?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 67 people named Sürmeli in 2007, about 1 in 258 thousand residents.
- How common is Sürmeli compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Sürmeli is the 917th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%BCrmeliThe 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, “Sürmeli” — the 917th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.