Mutlu
surname · Latin script
Meaning: happy
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mut̪ɫu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mutlu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 79th most common surname.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 767(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 38K
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 4.4K
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
- 136 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 767 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
happy
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mutlu 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 | #79 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 767 | — | Mutlu | 136 |
| AF Afghanistan | #597 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Mutlu | 3 |
| FR France | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 69K | 143 | — | 4 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 4 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 457 | 1 in 38K | 457 | Mutlu | 35 |
| MD Moldova | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 1 | — | 3 |
| CY Cyprus | #544 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Mutlu | 13 |
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); 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)
Mutlu is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, Mutluluğa ermiş olan, mesut.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)
- Necmi Mutlub. 1935TRTurkish association football player and manager (born 1935)
- Mine Mutlub. 1948TRTurkish actor (1948–1990)
- Ayten Mutlub. 1952TRTurkish writer (born 1952)
- Hüseyin Avni Mutlub. 1956TRTurkish statesperson (born 1956)
- Özcan Mutlub. 1968TRTurkish-German statesperson (born 1968)
- Halil Mutlub. 1973TRTurkish weightlifter (born 1973)
- Mert Mutlub. 1974TRTurkish cyclist (born 1974)
- Seçil Mutlub. 1979TRTurkish actor (born 1979)
- Demet Mutlub. 1981TRTurkish businessperson (born 1981)
- Burçin Mutlu PakdilTRTurkish astrophysicist
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 32 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 457 | #4,284 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 143 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 73 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 22 | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
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 Mutlu mean, and where does it come from?
- happy Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mutlu?
- A machine transcription gives /mut̪ɫu/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Mutlu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 107 thousand people named Mutlu in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mutlu.
- How common is the name Mutlu?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 457 people named Mutlu in 2007, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
- How common is Mutlu compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Mutlu is the 79th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mutlu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mutluThe 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, “Mutlu” — the 79th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.