Bakır
surname · Latin script
Meaning: copper
/bakɯɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bakır is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 17K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 18K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈51,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)copper
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bakır 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.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Bakır 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, Doğada serbest ve birleşik olarak bulunan kızıl renkli, kolay işlenir bir maden.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In otk, 'copper'; sometimes 'a copper coin', or 'the weight of a copper coin', a 'mace' one-tenth of a Chinese ounce
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
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)- Güven Bakırb. 1939TRTurkish archaeologist (1939–2018)
- Tomris Bakırb. 1941TRTurkish archaeologist (1941–2020)
- Tülay Bakırb. 1947TRTurkish statesperson (born 1947)
- Mehmet Bakırb. 1957TRTurkish physician (born 1957)
- Fatih Bakırb. 1977TRTurkish wrestler (born 1977)
- Erhan Bakırb. 1982TRTurkish wrestler (born 1982)
- Pelin Gündeş Bakırb. 1984TRTurkish statesperson (born 1984)
- Barış Bakırb. 1984TRTurkish association football player (born 1984)
- Feride Bakırb. 1992TRTurkish association football player (born 1992)
- Remziye Bakırb. 1997TRTurkish association football player (born 1997)
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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 0 countries.
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 Bakır mean, and where does it come from?
- copper Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Bakır?
- In the etymology graph, Bakir and Baqir are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Bakır?
- A machine transcription gives /bakɯɾ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Bakır have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 51 thousand people named Bakır in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bakır.
- How common is the name Bakır?
- Mondonomo estimates about 51,000 people in Türkiye have Bakır as their first surname, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Bakır compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Bakır is the 193rd 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/bak%C4%B1rThe 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, “Bakır” — the 193rd most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.