Bozok
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name that means "Grey Arrow"
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈbozok/(recorded in a dictionary) Turkish · from Wiktionary
Bozok is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 221K
- BEBelgium1 in 293K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
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)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a male given name that means "Grey Arrow"
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bozok 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Bozok is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 24 Oğuz boyundan on ikisine verilen ad. Osmanoğulları bu boydan gelmiştir.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)- Salih Bozokb. 1881TRTurkish military officer and statesperson (1881–1941)
- Hüsamettin Bozokb. 1916TRTurkish writer (1916–2008)
- Erdoğan Bozokb. 1932TRTurkish caricaturist (1932–2015)
- Gabriele Bozokb. 1953DEGerman politician
- Melike İlgünb. 1974TRnot in their usual nameTurkish newscaster (born 1974)
- Umut Bozokb. 1996FRTurkish association football player (born 1996)
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 40 | #30,479 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 38 | #22,915 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 19 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 13 | #28,547 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | — | — |
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 Bozok mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name that means "Grey Arrow" Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bozok?
- In Turkish /ˈbozok/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Bozok have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.9 thousand people named Bozok in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bozok.
- How common is the name Bozok?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 40 people named Bozok in 2008, about 1 in 293 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bozok?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bozokThe 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, “Bozok”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.