Ülkü

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Amaç edinilen, ulaşılmak istenen şey

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 77K
  • FRFrance≈1 in 415K

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)

≈37,000 people, est.

Sources
95 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.2K (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 Ulku in FR France.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Turkish

Amaç edinilen, ulaşılmak istenen şey.

Sources 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ülkü 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 Ülkü is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#551≈37,000 est.≈1 in 2.2K—Ülkü69
DE Germany—≈1,000 est.≈1 in 77KlistedÜlkü40
CY Cyprus#363≈220 est.≈1 in 5.8K—Ülkü9
AT Austria—≈210 est.≈1 in 42K29Ülkü9
FR France—≈160 est.≈1 in 415K—Ulku71
BE Belgium—≈140 est.≈1 in 83K4Ülkü5
SE Sweden—341 in 300K34Ülkü7

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: the de-munich-vornamen register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

Ülkü is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Dominican Republic, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ulku

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Ulkü, Ulku, Ülku

  • Bulgarian given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Türkiye

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian

    Also written Ulku

  • Danish given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Türkiye, Norway, United States

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Ulku

  • Czech given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Ulku

  • Russian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Türkiye, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Улку, Ульку, Ulku

30 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1930194019501960Ülkü Adatepe, b. 1932Ülkü Azrak, b. 1933Ülkü Erakalın, b. 1934Ülkü Tamer, b. 1937Ülkü Aker, b. 1943Ülkü Ülker, b. 1950Ülkü Özen, b. 1951Ülkü Ayvaz, b. 1955Ülkü Duru, b. 1957Ülkü Akbaba, b. 1958

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 Ülkü,Hi Ülkü, (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 20 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Ülkü
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—34#17,791
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)202129#1,876
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202024—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201623—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201922—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201822—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201722—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201522—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201422—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201321—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201221—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201121—

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name 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

How do you pronounce Ülkü?
A machine transcription gives /yʎcy/ (IPA) for Turkish.
Is Ülkü a male or female name?
Ülkü is a female 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.
What does the name Ülkü mean?
Recorded meaning: Amaç edinilen, ulaşılmak istenen şey.
In which country does Ülkü have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 37 thousand people named Ülkü in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ülkü.
How common is the name Ülkü?
In Sweden, the national register counted 34 people named Ülkü, about 1 in 300 thousand residents.
How common is Ülkü compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Ülkü is the 551st most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.

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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, “Ülkü” — the 551st most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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