Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

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Meral

Meral /meˈɾaɫ/

“hind, female deer”2

Province lists
11
province top-30s
Letters / syllables
5 / 2
Formation
Plain noun
Vowel harmony
mixed
Contents§1–§11
  1. §1Pronunciation
  2. §2Meaning
  3. §3Root tree
  4. §4Formation & 1934
  5. §5Spellings
  6. §6Provinces
  7. §7Notable people
  8. §8As a first name
  9. §9Sources
  10. §10Questions
  11. §11Related

How do you pronounce Meral?

Meral

IPA /meˈɾaɫ/

The stress usually falls on syllable 2 (marked). In everyday Turkish, stress in surnames varies by speaker and region.

What does the surname Meral mean?

Meral is a form of maral and means “female deer, hind”. Used in folk poetry as an image of beauty and grace, it is a common girl’s name, which the surname carries on.2

Meral is also an ordinary word in everyday Turkish.

What is Meral made of?

Meral is a single Turkic root: meral (meral: maral, female deer).

Meral root meral meral: maral, female deer TURKIC meral “maral, female red deer” Meral meral root meral: maral, female deer meral TURKIC “maral, female red deer”
Meral: parts and root words
  • meral Turkic — maral, female red deer2

How was the name Meral formed?

Meral is the word meral (“meral: maral, female deer”), taken unchanged as a surname.

Shared note · 1934Surnames became compulsory with Surname Law No. 2525 of 21 June 1934.5

How else is Meral spelled?

Maralspelling

Where in Türkiye is Meral most common?

Meral is outside the national top 30, but it appears in the top-30 list of 1 province; its best rank is 14th in Gümüşhane.1

Adana Adıyaman Afyonkarahisar Ağrı Amasya Ankara Antalya Artvin Aydın Balıkesir Bilecik Bingöl Bitlis Bolu Burdur Bursa Çanakkale Çankırı Çorum Denizli Diyarbakır Edirne Elazığ Erzincan Erzurum Eskişehir Gaziantep Giresun Gümüşhane · rank 14 · 1,031 people Hakkari Hatay Isparta Mersin Istanbul Izmir Kars Kastamonu Kayseri Kırklareli Kırşehir Kocaeli Konya Kütahya Malatya Manisa Kahramanmaraş Mardin Muğla Muş Nevşehir Niğde Ordu Rize Sakarya Samsun Siirt Sinop Sivas Tekirdağ Tokat Trabzon Tunceli Şanlıurfa Uşak Van Yozgat Zonguldak Aksaray Bayburt Karaman Kırıkkale Batman Şırnak Bartın Ardahan Iğdır Yalova Karabük Kilis Osmaniye Düzce Hover or focus a province · ADNKS 2025
  • In the province top 30 1
  • Not listed
Meral: rank by province, 2025 (TÜİK ADNKS, province top-30 lists)
Provinces with the most bearers
#ProvinceRankPeople
01Gümüşhane141,031

Who are some well-known people named Meral?

  1. Buse Meral actor 1999–
  2. Mesut Meral association football coach 1987–
  3. İlker Meral association football referee 1976–
  4. Gökhan Meral association football player 1991–
  5. Ziya Meral author
  6. Bayram Meral politician 1941–
  7. Fahri Meral statesperson 1969–
  8. Bekir Mustafa Meral association football player 1999–

People surnamed Meral as recorded in Wikidata, ordered by the number of Wikipedia language editions.

Is Meral also a first name?

Yes. Meral is given as a first name too, carrying the same sense: “hind, female deer”.

Meral as a first name: meaning and statistics — turkiyenames.com →

Where do these facts come from?

  1. 1 Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (TÜİK)ADNKS TÜİK Nüfus İsim Portalı: En çok kullanılan soyisimler (ADNKS) accessed 8 November 2026
  2. 2 Wikimedia Vikisözlük: meral accessed 8 November 2026
  3. 3 Wikimedia Vikisözlük: Meral accessed 8 November 2026
  4. 4 Wikimedia Foundation Wikidata: people with this family name accessed 8 November 2026
  5. 5 T.C. Resmî Gazete / Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi (mevzuat.gov.tr) Soyadı Kanunu (Kanun No. 2525) accessed 8 November 2026
  6. 6 Natural Earth Natural Earth: Admin-1 boundaries accessed 8 November 2026
  7. 7 turkiyenames.com Türkiye İsimleri (turkiyenames.com) accessed 9 November 2026

Common questions about Meral

Q1

What does the surname Meral mean?

Meral is a form of maral and means “female deer, hind”. Used in folk poetry as an image of beauty and grace, it is a common girl’s name, which the surname carries on.
Q2

What is the origin of the surname Meral?

The root word of Meral is meral (Turkic): “maral, female red deer”.
Q3

How do you pronounce Meral?

Me·ral, 2 syllables; IPA: /meˈɾaɫ/.