Aktürk
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Soylu, temiz, doğru ve dürüst Türk
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aktyɾc/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aktürk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 71K
- FRFrance≈1 in 282K
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
- 89 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Akturk in FR France, US United States.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Soylu, temiz, doğru ve dürüst Türk.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aktürk 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 | #281 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Aktürk | 65 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Aktürk | 43 |
| FR France | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 282K | 48 | Akturk | 74 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Aktürk | 9 |
| US United States | — | 100 | 1 in 3.3M | 134 | Akturk | 89 |
| NO Norway | — | 62 | 1 in 88K | 62 | Aktürk | 6 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Aktürk | 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Yıldırım Aktürkb. 1941TRTurkish statesperson (born 1941)
- Sultanab. 1968TRnot in their usual nameTurkish singer (born 2000)
- Tuna Aktürkb. 1977TRTurkish association football player (born 1977)
- Engin Aktürkb. 1983TRTurkish association football player (born 1983)
- Savaş Aktürkb. 1989TRTurkish ice hockey player (born 1989)
- Feyzullah Aktürkb. 1999TRTurkish wrestler (born 1999)
- Emir Aktürkb. 2004TRTurkish association football player (born 2004)
- Altun AktürkTRTurkish actor
- Sema AktürkTRTurkish academic
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 10 sources across 5 countries.
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 Aktürk?
- A machine transcription gives /aktyɾc/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Aktürk mean?
- Recorded meaning: Soylu, temiz, doğru ve dürüst Türk.
- In which country does Aktürk have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named Aktürk in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aktürk.
- How common is the name Aktürk?
- In the United States, the national register counted 100 people named Aktürk in 2010, about 1 in 3.3 million residents.
- How common is Aktürk compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Aktürk is the 281st 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/akt%C3%BCrkThe 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, “Aktürk” — the 281st most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.