Başkaya
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Önemli, saygın kimse
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Başkaya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 6.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 130K
- DEGermany≈1 in 410Kfew records
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
- 49 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 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 Baskaya in DE Germany, FR France.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Önemli, saygın kimse.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Başkaya is found
(measured from records)Başkaya 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.
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: 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Fikret Başkayab. 1940TRTurkish writer (born 1940)
- Özlem Başkayab. 1975TRTurkish actor (born 1975)
- Özlem BaşkayaTRTurkish actor
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Başkaya mean?
- Recorded meaning: Önemli, saygın kimse.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Başkaya?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Başkaya in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled başkaya. After it come Germany, Cyprus, Denmark and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Başkaya?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 45 people named Başkaya, about 1 in 130 thousand residents.
- How common is Başkaya compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Başkaya is the 767th 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/ba%C5%9FkayaThe 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, “Başkaya” — the 767th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.