Öz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: gist
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/øz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Öz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 81st most common surname.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 793(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 11K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 20K
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
- 144 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 793 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Oz in US United States, NL Netherlands.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
gist
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Öz 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 | #81 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 793 | — | Öz | 103 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Öz | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 381 | 1 in 45K | 381 | Oz | 28 |
| US United States | — | 296 | 1 in 1.1M | 663 | Oz | 144 |
| SE Sweden | — | 200 | 1 in 51K | 200 | Öz | 12 |
| CY Cyprus | #649 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Öz | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Öz is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. Bir kimsenin benliği, manevi varlığı. 2. Bir şeyin temel ögesi. 3. Kan bağı ile bağlı olan, üvey olmayan. 4. Katıksız, arı.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In gag, one's own, personal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In crh, core
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Azerbaijani, self
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Erdal Özb. 1935TRTurkish publisher and writer (1935–2006)
- Amos Ozb. 1939ILIsraeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual (1939–2018)
- Mehmet Özb. 1960USTurkish-American surgeon, TV host, and government official (born 1960)
- Fania Oz-Salzbergerb. 1960ILIsraeli historian
- Lisa Ozb. 1963USAmerican writer
- Gürgân Özb. 1978TRTurkish actor (born 1978)
- Tuncer Özb. 1984TRTurkish actor (born 1984)
- Daphne Ozb. 1986USAmerican writer and television personality
- İpek Özb. 1999TRTurkish tennis player (born 1999)
- Mehmet ÖzTRTurkish entomologist
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 15 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 381 | #5,286 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 200 | #4,142 |
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 Öz mean, and where does it come from?
- gist Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Öz?
- A machine transcription gives /øz/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Öz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 103 thousand people named Öz in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled öz.
- How common is the name Öz?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 381 people named Öz in 2007, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
- How common is Öz compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Öz is the 81st most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Öz?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B6zThe 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, “Öz” — the 81st most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.