Çaylak
surname · Latin script
Meaning: kite (bird)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/tʃajɫak/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Çaylak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 7.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 279K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 410K
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)
- Record sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Caylak in FR France, DE Germany, SY Syria.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)kite (bird)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Çaylak 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 | #830 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Çaylak | 34 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 504K | — | Caylak | 41 |
| FR France | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 904K | 9 | Caylak | 65 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 846K | — | Caylak | 2 |
| BE Belgium | — | 22 | 1 in 533K | 22 | Çaylak | 7 |
| DK Denmark | — | 21 | 1 in 279K | 21 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 409K | listed | — | 1 |
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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Çaylak is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. Irmağın geçit yeri, geçit. 2. Sözünde durmayan kimse. 3. Yırtıcılardan uzun kanatlı, çengel gagalı, küçük kuşları avlayan bir kuş.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #77,791 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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 Çaylak mean, and where does it come from?
- kite (bird) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Çaylak?
- In Turkish /tʃajɫak/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Çaylak have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Çaylak in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled çaylak.
- How common is the name Çaylak?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 22 people named Çaylak in 2008, about 1 in 533 thousand residents.
- How common is Çaylak compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Çaylak is the 830th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A7aylakThe 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, “Çaylak” — the 830th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.