Burak
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The celestial mount on whose back prophet Muhammad travelled to Heaven on his Night Journey
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/buɾak/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Burak is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye1 in 444(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 13K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Burak itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 225 (measured from records)
- 1 in 444 (inferred from the name graph)
184,581 people, 2025
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye
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)
The celestial mount on whose back prophet Muhammad travelled to Heaven on his Night Journey.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Burak 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 | #157 | 184,581 | 1 in 444 | 185K | Burak | 181 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | 531 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | 7 | Burak | 50 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 51K | 1K | Burak | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | #883 | 1,305 | 1 in 13K | 1.3K | Burak | 68 |
| CY Cyprus | #163 | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Burak | 26 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 581as Бурак | 1 in 3.7K | 581 | — | 9 |
184,581 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 2025. 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: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); State Statistical Office — living population names; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Burak is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, Hz. Muhammed'in Miraç Gecesi'ndeki biniti.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Russian, Fedko Burak, peasant of the Sitensk parish. 1495.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In nij, beating (of the heart, the breast, as when startled or alarmed)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In tsg, powder (used for face; face powder)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, beet (any plant of the genus Beta)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Buraq Hajibb. 1150not in their usual namefounder of a Khitan dynasty in Kerman, Persia
- Baraqb. 1250MNnot in their usual nameKhan of the Chagatai Khanate (r. 1266–1271)
- Burak Hakkıb. 1972TRTurkish actor (born 1972)
- Alişanb. 1976TRnot in their usual nameTurkish actor and singer (born 1976)
- Burak Yeterb. 1982TRTurkish musician (born 1982)
- Burak Özçivitb. 1984TRTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1984)
- Burak Yılmazb. 1985TRTurkish association football player and manager (born 1985)
- Burak Yiğitb. 1986DETurkish-German actor (born 1986)
- Burak Tozkoparanb. 1992TRTurkish actor (born 1992)
- Burak Kapacakb. 1999TRTurkish association football player (born 1999)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 66 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used given names | 2025 | 185K | #24 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 1.3K | #895 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 1.1K | #1,972 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1K | #2,357 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 531 | #536 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 8 | #542 |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
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 Burak mean, and where does it come from?
- The celestial mount on whose back prophet Muhammad travelled to Heaven on his Night Journey. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Burak?
- A machine transcription gives /buɾak/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Burak a male or female name?
- Burak is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Burak have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 185 thousand people named Burak, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled burak.
- Where is Burak most common?
- Burak is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 444 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Burak?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 184,581 people named Burak in 2025, about 1 in 444 residents.
- How common is Burak compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Burak is the 157th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/burakThe 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, “Burak” — the 157th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.