Meral

Meral is a common Turkish given name that means female deer. It is Turkish variant of Maral. In Altai, Turkish, Mongolian, Armenian and Persian "Maral" means "female deer". It is also used as a surname.

Given name

 * Meral Akşener (born 1956), Turkish politician
 * Meral Yıldız Ali (born 1987), Romanian-Turkish table tennis player
 * Meral Çetinkaya (born 1945), Turkish actress
 * Meral Danış Beştaş (born 1967), Turkish politician
 * Meral Ece (born 1953), British politician
 * Meral Menderes (1933–2011), Turkish opera singer as soprano
 * Meral Okay (1959–2012), Turkish actress, film producer and screenwriter
 * Meral Özsoyoglu, Turkish-American computer scientist
 * Meral Perin (born 1965), Turkish-German actress
 * Meral Tasbas (born 1979), Swedish actress

Surname

 * Ziya Meral, Turkish-British researcher and advisor