Zorlu
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Güzel, çok güzel, iyi
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/zoɾɫu/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Zorlu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 2.9Kfew records
- NONorway1 in 56K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈30,000 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)1. Güzel, çok güzel, iyi. 2. Yakışıklı. 3. Güçlü, dayanıklı. 4. Sert, keskin. 5. Yürekli, cesur. 6. Girgin, girişken.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Zorlu is found
(measured from records)Zorlu 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 | #337 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Zorlu | 78 |
| CY Cyprus | #223 | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Zorlu | 20 |
| FR France | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 289K | 59 | Zorlu | 2 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Zorlu | 9 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 139 | 1 in 124K | 139 | Zorlu | 12 |
| BE Belgium | — | 103 | 1 in 114K | 103 | Zorlu | 7 |
| NO Norway | — | 98 | 1 in 56K | 98 | Zorlu | 8 |
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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Fatin Rüştü Zorlub. 1910TRTurkish statesperson (1910–1961)
- Haydar Zorlub. 1967TRTurkish-German actor (born 1967)
- Sinan Zorlub. 1995TRTurkish badminton player (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)Evidence
(measured from records)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Zorlu?
- In Turkish /zoɾɫu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Zorlu mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Güzel, çok güzel, iyi.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Zorlu?
- Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Zorlu in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zorlu. After it come Cyprus, France, Indonesia and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Zorlu?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 139 people named Zorlu in 2007, about 1 in 124 thousand residents.
- How common is Zorlu compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Zorlu is the 337th 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/zorluThe 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, “Zorlu” — the 337th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.