Uslu

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Akıllı, zeki, uysal, sakin kimse

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/us̪ɫu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Uslu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 989(inferred from the name graph)
  • CYCyprus≈1 in 7.8K
  • DKDenmark1 in 37K

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)

≈83,000 people, est.

Sources
117 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 989 (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Turkish

Akıllı, zeki, uysal, sakin kimse.

Sources 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Uslu 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.

Where Uslu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#110≈83,000 est.≈1 in 989—Uslu117
FR France—≈480 est.≈1 in 140K82Uslu2
NL Netherlands—3371 in 51K337Uslu37
CY Cyprus#398≈160 est.≈1 in 7.8K—Uslu7
BE Belgium—1611 in 73K244Uslu17
CH Switzerland—1611 in 52K161Uslu17
DK Denmark—1581 in 37K158——

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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Uslu is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Türkiye, United States, Austria

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Üslü, U'Slu, Ûslu, Uşlu, Ueslue

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Argentina, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Üslü

  • Bulgarian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Türkiye, Netherlands, Croatia

    Languages: Bulgarian, Polish, Croatian

    Also written Услу, Üslu

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria

    Also written Üslu

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Üslü

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Muzaffer Tayyip Uslu, b. 1922Meral Uslu, b. 1962Zeynep Karahan Uslu, b. 1969Ece Uslu, b. 1974Fadime Uslu, b. 1978Murat İbrahim Uslu, b. 1978Cem Uslu, b. 1983Zeynep Seda Uslu, b. 1983Binnaz Uslu, b. 1985Mehmet Uslu, b. 1988

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)

FormalSayın Uslu,Dear , (English)
InformalSayın Uslu,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Uslu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007337#6,039
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—244#7,213
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024161#7,506
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008161#10,310
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—158#3,337
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199182—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198162—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197124—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961——
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951——
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941——
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931——

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

How do you pronounce Uslu?
A machine transcription gives /us̪ɫu/ (IPA) for Turkish.
What does the name Uslu mean?
Recorded meaning: Akıllı, zeki, uysal, sakin kimse.
In which country does Uslu have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 83 thousand people named Uslu in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled uslu.
How common is the name Uslu?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 337 people named Uslu in 2007, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
How common is Uslu compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Uslu is the 110th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Uslu” — the 110th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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