Bektaş
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Akran, eş, yaşıt. 2 (TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/bɛktˈaʃ/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Bektaş is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 4.2Kfew records
- ATAustria≈1 in 18Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈75,000 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 Bektas in DE Germany, FR France, AT Austria.
How to pronounce Bektaş
- Turkish:/bɛktˈaʃ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)1. Akran, eş, yaşıt. 2. Eşit, denk.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bektaş is found
(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 | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Bektaş | 85 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Bektas | 100 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Bektaş | 5 |
| FR France | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 129K | 115 | Bektas | 117 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 9 | Bektas | 27 |
| CY Cyprus | #352 | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Bektaş | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 317 | 1 in 27K | 317 | Bektaş | 16 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Bektaş | 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); 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)
- Bayram Bektaşb. 1974TRTurkish association football player (born 1974)
- Cansu Bektaşb. 2003TRTurkish weightlifter (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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Bektaş?
- In Turkish /bɛktˈaʃ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Bektaş mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Akran, eş, yaşıt. 2.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bektaş?
- Mondonomo estimates about 75 thousand people named Bektaş in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bektaş. After it come Germany, Syria, France and Austria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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 2026-10-13.