Öney
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Önde olan, önde gelen, üstün
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ønej/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Öney is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 94K
- TNTunisia≈1 in 32K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 285 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Oney in US United States, IT Italy, CN China and 2 more.
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)
Önde olan, önde gelen, üstün.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Öney 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Oney | 2 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Öney | 35 |
| US United States | 3,528 | 1 in 94K | 3.5K | Oney | 285 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Oney | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 114K | — | Oney | 3 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Oney | 2 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Öney | 5 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)
- Tülay Öneyb. 1939TRTurkish statesperson (born 1939)
- Benan Öneyb. 1940TRTurkish association football player (born 1940)
- Metin Öneyb. 1946TRTurkish statesperson (born 1946)
- Taylan Öneyb. 1947TRTurkish-German gynecologist (1947–2016)
- Gülümser Öneyb. 1956TRTurkish female chess player
- Feridun Öneyb. 1956TRTurkish chess player (born 1956)
- Bilkay Öneyb. 1970TRTurkish-German statesperson (born 1970)
- Feryal Öneyb. 1970TRTurkish singer (born 1970)
- Özgür Can Öneyb. 1980TRTurkish musician (born 1980)
- Gözde ÖneyTRTurkish musician
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)
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Öney?
- A machine transcription gives /ønej/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Öney mean?
- Recorded meaning: Önde olan, önde gelen, üstün.
- In which country does Öney have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Öney in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oney.
- How common is the name Öney?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,528 people named Öney in 2010, about 1 in 94 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B6neyThe 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, “Öney”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.