Bektaş
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Akran, eş, yaşıt. 2
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɛktˈaʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bektaş is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 40K
- FRFrance≈1 in 108K
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
- 117 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈69,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bektas in DE Germany, FR France, AT Austria.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. Akran, eş, yaşıt. 2. Eşit, denk.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bektaş 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 | #141 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Bektaş | 85 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Bektas | 100 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Bektaş | 5 |
| FR France | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 108K | 115 | Bektas | 117 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Bektaş | 4 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 9 | Bektas | 27 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 317 | 1 in 27K | 317 | Bektaş | 16 |
| CY Cyprus | #352 | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Bektaş | 6 |
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); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Cengiz Bektaşb. 1934TRTurkish architect (1934–2020)
- Habib Bektaşb. 1951TRTurkish writer (born 1951)
- Erdoğan Bektaşb. 1960TRTurkish statesperson (born 1960)
- Hüseyin Bektaşb. 1961TRTurkish college professor (born 1961)
- Erkan Bektaşb. 1972TRTurkish actor (born 1972)
- Bayram Bektaşb. 1974TRTurkish association football player (born 1974)
- Onur Bektaşb. 1984TRTurkish association football player (born 1984)
- Ali Bektaşb. 1988TRTurkish association football player (born 1988)
- Cansu Bektaşb. 2003TRTurkish weightlifter (born 2003)
- Yasemin Bektaşb. 2003TRTurkish badminton player (born 2003)
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 9 sources across 3 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
- How do you pronounce Bektaş?
- A machine transcription gives /bɛktˈaʃ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Bektaş mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Akran, eş, yaşıt. 2.
- In which country does Bektaş have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 69 thousand people named Bektaş in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bektaş.
- How common is the name Bektaş?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 317 people named Bektaş in 2024, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Bektaş compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Bektaş is the 141st 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/bekta%C5%9FThe 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, “Bektaş” — the 141st most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.