Zengin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: rich, wealthy
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/zenɡin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zengin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 6.5K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 48K
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
- 110 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈74,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)rich, wealthy
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zengin 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 | #130 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Zengin | 110 |
| FR France | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 83K | 112 | Zengin | 2 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Zengin | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 261 | 1 in 66K | 261 | Zengin | 22 |
| CY Cyprus | #410 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Zengin | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 175 | 1 in 48K | 175 | Zengin | 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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)Zengin 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, 1. Parası, malı çok olan, varlıklı. 2. Verimli. 3. Gösterişli.
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)- İbrahim Zenginb. 1931TRTurkish wrestler (1931–2013)
- Sefa Zenginb. 1968TRTurkish actor (born 1968)
- Özlem Zenginb. 1969TRTurkish lawyer and politician
- Tolga Zenginb. 1983TRTurkish association football player (born 1983)
- Aslı Zenginb. 1984TRTurkish screenwriter (born 1984)
- Erkan Zenginb. 1985TRTurkish-Swedish association football player (born 1985)
- Kerim Zenginb. 1985TRTurkish association football player (born 1985)
- Serhan Zenginb. 1990DEGerman-Turkish footballer and coach
- Ulaş Zenginb. 1997TRTurkish association football player (born 1997)
- Gökhan ZenginTRTurkish food engineer
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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 261 | #7,947 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 175 | #6,995 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 112 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 101 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 61 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | — | — |
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 Zengin mean, and where does it come from?
- rich, wealthy Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Zengin?
- A machine transcription gives /zenɡin/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Zengin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 74 thousand people named Zengin in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zengin.
- How common is the name Zengin?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 261 people named Zengin in 2007, about 1 in 66 thousand residents.
- How common is Zengin compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Zengin is the 130th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zenginThe 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, “Zengin” — the 130th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.