Öcal

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Öcal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: "Yapılan kötülüğün acısını çıkar, öcünü al" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 3.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CYCyprus≈1 in 14K
  • DKDenmark1 in 40K

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)

≈26,000 people, est.

Sources
80 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ocal in NL Netherlands, PH Philippines.

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)

recorded in Turkish

"Yapılan kötülüğün acısını çıkar, öcünü al" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.

Sources 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Öcal 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 Öcal is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#305≈26,000 est.≈1 in 3.2K—Öcal71
PH Philippines—≈350 est.≈1 in 316K—Ocal2
FR France—≈270 est.≈1 in 250K67Öcal2
DK Denmark—1471 in 40K147——
NL Netherlands—1461 in 118K146Ocal18
SE Sweden—1231 in 83K123Öcal7
CY Cyprus#510≈94 est.≈1 in 14K—Öcal6

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); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Öcal is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Philippines, Türkiye, United States

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Ocal, Öçal, Oecal, Oeçal, Õcal

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Türkiye, United States, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ocal, Öçal

  • French surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye, Belgium, Philippines

    Also written Ocal, Öçal, Öcàl, Ocàl

  • Danish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Türkiye, Sweden, Norway

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Ocal, Ôcal

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Öçal, Ocal

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

    Also written Ocal, Öçal

  • Bulgarian surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Türkiye

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian

    Also written Öçal, Ocal

31 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Hakkı Öcal, b. 1949Ruhsar Öcal, b. 1959Deniz Öcal, b. 1978Ahmet Öcal, b. 1979Arda Öcal, b. 1981Mert Öcal, b. 1982Ali İbrahim Öcal, b. 1982Sevilay İmamoğlu Öcal, b. 1984Abdülkerim Öcal, b. 1987Ozhan Ocal, 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Öcal
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—147#3,676
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007146#13,883
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—123#6,103

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 Öcal mean?
Recorded meaning: "Yapılan kötülüğün acısını çıkar, öcünü al" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.
In which country does Öcal have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Öcal in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled öcal.
How common is the name Öcal?
In Denmark, the national register counted 147 people named Öcal, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
How common is Öcal compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Öcal is the 305th most common surname of 619,652 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, “Öcal” — the 305th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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