Yazar

surname · Latin script

Meaning: author, writer

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

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

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 163K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 222K
  • SESweden1 in 268K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Netherlands (measured from records)

78 people, 2007

Sources
11 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 163K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

author, writer

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Yazar 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 Yazar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands—781 in 222K78——
SE Sweden—381 in 268K38—1
DK Denmark—361 in 163K36——
CH Switzerland—271 in 311K27——
BE Belgium—261 in 451K26——
MM Myanmar (Burma)#503———Yazar11

78 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)

Yazar is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Bulgarian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Türkiye

    Languages: Bulgarian, Polish, Croatian

    Also written Язар, Ÿâžàr

43 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)

Yazar 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 Turkish, Yazın, bilim veya sanat alanında yapıt veren kimse.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

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)

19201940196019802000Gönül Yazar, b. 1936Mehmet Yazar, b. 1936Abdulaziz Yazar, b. 1951Michelle Yazar, b. 1965Umid Yazar, b. 1974Nur Yazar, b. 1982Saffet Gurur Yazar, b. 1987Ceyhun Yazar, b. 1992Yiğit Ege Yazar, b. 2000

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 Yazar,Dear , (English)
InformalSayın Yazar,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Yazar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200778#23,004
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—38#15,731
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—36#14,112
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202427#29,501
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200826#40,308

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Yazar mean, and where does it come from?
author, writer Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Yazar?
A machine transcription gives /jazaɾ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
In which country does Yazar have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 78 people named Yazar, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Yazar most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yazar is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 163 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Yazar?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 78 people named Yazar in 2007, about 1 in 222 thousand residents.
How common is Yazar compared with other names?
In Myanmar (Burma), Yazar is the 503rd most common surname of 12,945 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, “Yazar” — the 503rd most common surname in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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