Şimay
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃimaj/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Şimay is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 8.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 7.7K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 70K
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)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Simay in TR Türkiye, DE Germany, CY Cyprus and 4 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)
Gümmüş gibi parlak güzel.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Şimay 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 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | #98 | Simay | 62 |
| DE Germany | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 228K | — | Simay | 33 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Simay | 11 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Simay | 4 |
| AT Austria | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 99K | 85 | Simay | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | 84 | 1 in 206K | 84 | Simay | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Simay | 4 |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Şimay?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃimaj/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Şimay have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.7 thousand people named Şimay in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled simay.
- How common is the name Şimay?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 84 people named Şimay, about 1 in 206 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Şimay?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9FimayThe 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, “Şimay”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.