Ispoglou Surname

2,352,516th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 66 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Greece
Highest density in:
Greece

Ispoglou Surname User-submission:

Ispoglou probably means 'son of the seeder'.

The ending -oglou is very common in Turkey and when used by Greeks, suggests that the person bearing the surname has origins from Asian Minor (Anatolia).

Greeks inhabited Asian Minor (currently Turkey) from Ancient times.

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Ispoglou Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Greece561:197,85331,389
Germany61:13,417,576340,600
England31:18,572,686338,250
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Ispoglou Surname Meaning

User-submitted Reference

Ispoglou probably means 'son of the seeder'.

The ending -oglou is very common in Turkey and when used by Greeks, suggests that the person bearing the surname has origins from Asian Minor (Anatolia).

Greeks inhabited Asian Minor (currently Turkey) from Ancient times.

Anatolia remained multi-ethnic until the early 20th century. During World War I, the Armenian Genocide, the Greek genocide (especially in Pontus), and the Assyrian genocide almost entirely removed the ancient indigenous communities of Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian populations in Anatolia and surrounding regions. Following the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922, most remaining ethnic Anatolian Greeks were forced out during the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey. Many more have left Turkey since, leaving fewer than 5,000 Greeks in Anatolia today. Since the foundation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, Anatolia has been within Turkey, its inhabitants being mainly Turks and Kurds.

A lot of Greeks didn't want to leave their homes and become refugees. That's why the Turks suggested they'll either stop talking Greek and learn the Turkish language or change their faith from Christians to Muslim, in an attempted to eliminate their identity. Truth is though, that they secretly spoke Greek at home, thus becoming fluent in both languages.

The ending -oglou suggests that the ancestors of people bearing the surname, chose to keep their religion and get rid of their Greek identity. Times were crucial and if they didn't do this, they wouldn't be able to survive and would most probably get killed by the Turks.

When things became worse and Greece and Turkey decided to search for common ground, most Greeks in Anatolia were sent back to the mainland but they didn't change their surnames to the initial form.

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Ispoglou Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Ispoglou Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Ispoglou is carried by more people in Greece than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Ispoglou? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 2,352,516th most frequently held surname throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 110,417,362 people. The last name Ispoglou occurs predominantly in Europe, where 98 percent of Ispoglou reside; 85 percent reside in Southeastern Europe and 85 percent reside in Helleno-Europe.

The surname Ispoglou is most frequently held in Greece, where it is borne by 56 people, or 1 in 197,853. In Greece Ispoglou is primarily concentrated in: Epirus, where 66 percent live, Attica, where 27 percent live and Western Macedonia, where 7 percent live. Aside from Greece this last name occurs in 3 countries. It is also found in Germany, where 9 percent live and England, where 5 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Espoglou881/
Ipoglu8667/
İspoğlu8015/
Epoglou809/
İspaoğlu7514/
Espeoglu7513/
Epoglous751/
Esipogulu711/
Espigolou711/
Isabeyoglu6710/

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