Yener
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Üstün gelen, kazanan
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yener is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 3.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 40K
- BEBelgium1 in 69K
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)
- Sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Üstün gelen, kazanan.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yener 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 | #400 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Yener | 84 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Yener | 8 |
| BE Belgium | — | 169 | 1 in 69K | 233 | Yener | 17 |
| FR France | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 427K | 33 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | 194 | Yener | 75 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 99 | 1 in 85K | 99 | Yener | 11 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Yener | 2 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Yener | 11 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Yener 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 German, männl. Vom. türkischer Herkunft (türk, yener »er besiegt«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Faruk Yenerb. 1923TRTurkish music writer
- Yaman Yenerb. 1946TRTurkish-American academic (1946–2013)
- Recep Yenerb. 1958TRTurkish actor (1958–2014)
- Ahmet Yenerb. 1966TRTurkish jurist (born 1966)
- Hande Yenerb. 1973TRTurkish singer (born 1973)
- Erdem Yenerb. 1981TRTurkish actor (born 1981)
- İdil Yenerb. 1983TRTurkish actor (born 1983)
- Hüsamettin Yenerb. 1995TRTurkish association football player (born 1995)
- Ercan YenerTRTurkish architect
- Bülent YenerTRTurkish computer scientist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 233 | #7,578 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 169 | #9,869 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 99 | #11,154 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 13 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Yener mean?
- Recorded meaning: Üstün gelen, kazanan.
- In which country does Yener have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Yener in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yener.
- How common is the name Yener?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 169 people named Yener in 2008, about 1 in 69 thousand residents.
- How common is Yener compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Yener is the 400th 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/yenerThe 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, “Yener” — the 400th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.