Kartal
loc · Latin script
Meaning: eagle
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
/kaɾ.ta̟ɫ/(recorded in a dictionary) Turkish · from Wiktionary
Kartal is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 770(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 25K
- MDMoldova≈1 in 34K
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
- 133 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 765 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 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)eagle
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kartal 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 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 765 | — | Kartal | 111 |
| FR France | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 77K | 138 | Kartal | 133 |
| AT Austria | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 13 | Kartal | 22 |
| NL Netherlands | 348 | 1 in 50K | 348 | — | 34 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 31K | listed | Kartal | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 239 | 1 in 25K | 239 | — | — |
| MD Moldova | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 1 | — | 2 |
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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); e-services.md — living population register. 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)Kartal is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, Kartalgillerden, çok güçlü, iri, yırtıcı kuş.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Águila
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In trk-pro, variegated (sheep)
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In otk, a large black eagle
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
In trk-pro, пестрый (баран)
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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)- Kâzım Kartalb. 1936TRTurkish actor (1936–2003)
- Kartal Tibetb. 1939TRTurkish actor and director (1939–2021)
- İsmail Kartalb. 1961TRTurkish association football player and manager (born 1961)
- Hüseyin Kartalb. 1982TRTurkish association football player (born 1982)
- Burcu Kartalb. 1982TRTurkish animator (born 1982)
- Erhan Kartalb. 1993TRTurkish association football player (born 1993)
- Kartal Özmızrakb. 1995TRTurkish basketball player (born 1995)
- Erhan-Can Kartalb. 1998TRTurkish actor (born 1998)
- Kartal Yılmazb. 2000TRTurkish association football player (born 2000)
- Aybars Kartal Özsonb. 2008TRTurkish actor (born 2008)
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)40 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 348 | #5,836 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 239 | #2,044 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 138 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 89 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 34 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Kartal mean, and where does it come from?
- eagle Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kartal?
- In Turkish /kaɾ.ta̟ɫ/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Kartal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 112 thousand people named Kartal in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kartal.
- How common is the name Kartal?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 348 people named Kartal in 2007, about 1 in 50 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/kartalThe 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, “Kartal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.