Ozbek
surname · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ozbek is a surname, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. In Afghanistan it is the 2nd most common surname. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Arabic, written in the Latin script.
- AFAfghanistan1 in 89◐
- TRTürkiye1 in 1.8K
- DEGermany1 in 38K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈901 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 106 ●
- 1 in 71K ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
192K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Özbek in TR Türkiye, DE Germany, AT Austria and 7 more and Озбек in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #172 | 175,251 | 172K rec. | — | — | Özbek | 78 |
| AF Afghanistan | #2 | 11,270 | 11K rec. | — | — | Ozbek | 5 |
| DE Germany | — | 2,924 | 2.8K rec. | — | — | Özbek | 53 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 410 | 209 rec. | — | — | Ozbek | 33 |
| AT Austria | — | 387 | 304 rec. | — | — | Özbek | 11 |
| RU Russia | — | 321 | 217 rec. | — | — | Озбек | 44 |
| IR Iran | — | 282 | 286 rec. | — | — | Ozbek | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 243 | 378 rec. | 1 in 71K | 243 | Ozbek | 19 |
| CY Cyprus | #340 | 170 | 246 rec. | — | — | Özbek | 9 |
| US United States | — | 159 | 1.3K rec. | 1 in 2.1M | 180 | Ozbek | 98 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 153 | 93 rec. | — | — | Özbek | 10 |
| SE Sweden | — | 126 | 71 rec. | 1 in 81K | 126 | Özbek | 12 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Turkish11K45%
- Arabic3.1K12%
- French2.1K8%
- Pashto2K8%
- English1.5K6%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 11,398 | 45% |
| Arabic | 3,075 | 12% |
| French | 2,096 | 8% |
| Pashto | 2,023 | 8% |
| English | 1,524 | 6% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Leyla Ozbekb. 1981ITItalian classical philologist (born 1981)
- Orhan Özbekb. 2000TRTurkish researcher (born 2000)
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 16 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 180 | #105,671 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 159 | #110,825 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 60 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 52 | #18,109 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 50 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 42 | #31,634 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 30 | #34,748 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 27 | #18,414 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 23 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 17 | #52,151 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 17 | #28,374 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 9 | #66,464 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 26 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ozbek?
- We estimate roughly 901 people bear Ozbek (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ozbek have the most bearers?
- Ozbek is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled özbek.
- How common is Ozbek compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Ozbek is the 172nd most common surname of 634,557 surnames recorded there.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Ozbek” — the 172nd most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.