Uğur
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name which means “luck”
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/uɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Uğur is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 574(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 2.2K
- USUnited States1 in 871K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 185 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 574 (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ugur in AZ Azerbaijan, US United States.
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)
a male given name which means “luck”
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Uğur 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 | #129 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 574 | #97 | Uğur | 168 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #966 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 7.5K | Ugur | 17 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 61K | 545 | Uğur | 2 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 61 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | #110 | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Uğur | 24 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 85 | Uğur | 34 |
| US United States | — | 382 | 1 in 871K | 366 | Ugur | 185 |
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: Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Uğur is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. Bazı olaylarda görülen ve insana iyilik getirdiğine inanılan belirti veya bazı nesnelerde var olduğuna inanılan iyilik kaynağı.2. Bu nitelikte olduğuna inanılan şey.3. İyilik, şans, talih, baht. 4. Fırsat, tesadüf.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In otk, semantically rather indefinite; seems to connote both 'time' and 'cause'
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
In Azerbaijani, luck
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)
- Uğur Mumcub. 1942TRTurkish journalist and writer (1942–1993)
- Uğur Erdenerb. 1950TRTurkish surgeon (born 1950)
- Uğur Yücelb. 1957TRTurkish actor and director (born 1957)
- Uğur Polatb. 1961TRTurkish actor (born 1961)
- Uğur Demirpehlivanb. 1963TRTurkish actor (born 1963)
- Uğur Şahinb. 1965DEGerman oncologist, developer of COVID-19 vaccine
- Uğur Pektaşb. 1979TRTurkish actor (born 1979)
- Uğur Ümit Üngörb. 1980NLTurkish-Dutch historian (born 1980)
- Uğur Boralb. 1982TRTurkish association football player (born 1982)
- Uğur Aktaşb. 1995TRTurkish karateka (born 1995)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 8 countries.
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
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 Uğur mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name which means “luck” Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Uğur?
- A machine transcription gives /uɾ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Uğur a male or female name?
- Uğur is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Uğur have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 143 thousand people named Uğur in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled uğur.
- How common is the name Uğur?
- In the United States, the national register counted 382 people named Uğur in 2020, about 1 in 871 thousand residents.
- How common is Uğur compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Uğur is the 129th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Uğur?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/u%C4%9FurThe 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, “Uğur” — the 129th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.