Zeren
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Anlayışlı, kavrayışlı, zeki
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Statistik Austria, 2024
/zeɾen/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Zeren is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 6.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 469K
- SESweden1 in 510K
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
- 61 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 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)Anlayışlı, kavrayışlı, zeki.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zeren 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 | #770 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Zeren | 61 |
| US United States | — | 107 | 1 in 3.1M | 148 | Zeren | 49 |
| FR France | — | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 887K | 25 | Zeren | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | listed | Zeren | 9 |
| BE Belgium | — | 25 | 1 in 469K | 25 | Zeren | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 20 | 1 in 510K | 20 | — | 4 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 590K | 17 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | — | 1 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2020; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Zeren is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The Mongolian gazelle, Procapra gutturosa.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, genitive indefinite of zer
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)- Mustafa Zerenb. 1895TRTurkish statesperson (1895–1971)
- Zeki Zerenb. 1900TRTurkish statesperson (1900–1973)
- Mustafa Macit Zerenb. 1921TRTurkish statesperson (1921–1989)
- Meral Zerenb. 1956TRTurkish actor (born 1956)
- Halime Zülal Zerenb. 1995TRTurkish swimmer (born 1995)
- Barış Zerenb. 1999TRTurkish association football player (born 1999)
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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Zeren mean?
- Recorded meaning: Anlayışlı, kavrayışlı, zeki.
- How do you pronounce Zeren?
- In Turkish /zeɾen/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Zeren have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Zeren in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zeren.
- How common is the name Zeren?
- In the United States, the national register counted 107 people named Zeren in 2010, about 1 in 3.1 million residents.
- How common is Zeren compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Zeren is the 770th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zerenThe 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, “Zeren” — the 770th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.