Çakmak
surname · Latin script
Meaning: lighter (fire-making device)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʃakmak/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Çakmak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 58th most common surname.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 637(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 36K
- NLNetherlands1 in 41K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 637 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Cakmak in DE Germany, FR France, NL Netherlands and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
lighter (fire-making device)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Çakmak 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #58 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 637 | — | Çakmak | 100 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Cakmak | 105 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Çakmak | 7 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Çakmak | 5 |
| FR France | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 100K | 114 | Cakmak | 130 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Cakmak | 28 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 423 | 1 in 41K | 423 | Cakmak | 29 |
| CY Cyprus | #119 | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Çakmak | 9 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Çakmak is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. Taşa vurulup kıvılcım çıkaran çelik parçası. 2. Tutuşturma aygıtı.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In otk, a strike-a-light, flint and steel
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mustafa Fevzi Çakmakb. 1876TRTurkish military officer and statesperson (1876–1950)
- Mustafa Çakmakb. 1909TRTurkish wrestler (1909–2009)
- Ahmet Şefik Çakmakb. 1934TRTurkish-American mathematician (born 1934)
- Barış Çakmakb. 1979TRTurkish actor (born 1979)
- Nurhan Çakmakb. 1981TRTurkish association football player (born 1981)
- Sedef Çakmakb. 1982TRTurkish politician and LGBT rights activist
- Yasin Çakmakb. 1985TRTurkish association football player (born 1985)
- İshak Çakmakb. 1992TRTurkish association football player (born 1992)
- Cihan Çakmakb. 1993TRTurkish photographer (born 1993)
- Serhat Çakmakb. 1995TRTurkish association football player (born 1995)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 423 | #4,715 |
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
- What does the name Çakmak mean, and where does it come from?
- lighter (fire-making device) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Çakmak?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃakmak/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Çakmak have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 129 thousand people named Çakmak in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled çakmak.
- How common is the name Çakmak?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 423 people named Çakmak in 2007, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
- How common is Çakmak compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Çakmak is the 58th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A7akmakThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Çakmak” — the 58th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.