Çerkez

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Circassian (person)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/tʃeɾcez̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Çerkez is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 70K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SYSyria≈1 in 143K
  • CYCyprus≈1 in 363K

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)

≈1,200 people, est.

Sources
24 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Cerkez in CY Cyprus.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Circassian (person)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Çerkez 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.

Where Çerkez is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye≈1,200 est.≈1 in 70K—Çerkez24
SY Syria≈140 est.≈1 in 143K—Çerkez3
CY Cyprus≈3 est.≈1 in 363K—Cerkez8
CH Switzerland≈2 est.≈1 in 3.8M17—5
IR Iran≈2 est.≈1 in 49M—Çerkez1
KG Kyrgyzstan≈2 est.≈1 in 2.9M—Çerkez2
PL Poland21 in 19M4——

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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Çerkez is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Austria, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Cerkez, Čerkez

  • Bulgarian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria

    Also written Cerkez, Čerkez

  • Russian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Syria

    Also written Cerkez, Čerkez

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Türkiye, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Cerkez, Čerkez

  • Urdu given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Cerkez, Čerkez

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Cerkez, Čerkez

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cerkez

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Çerkez 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, Kafkasya'nın yerli boylarından birinin adı ve bu boydan olan kimse.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

  • In Turkmen, Bir ösümligiň ady,ot.

    as a wordturkmenkultur.com — Türkmen Adam Atlary (Turkmen personal names, Kylyç 1998)

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)

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)

InformalMerhaba Çerkez,Hi Çerkez, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Çerkez
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20262#32,840
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#41,627

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 Çerkez mean, and where does it come from?
Circassian (person) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Çerkez?
A machine transcription gives /tʃeɾcez̪/ (IPA) for Turkish.
Is Çerkez a male or female name?
Çerkez is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Çerkez have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Çerkez in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled çerkez.
How common is the name Çerkez?
In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Çerkez in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A7erkez

The 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, “Çerkez”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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