Menekşe
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Menekşe is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: violet.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 3.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 22K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 63K
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
- 34 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
violet
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Menekşe 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 | #702 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Menekşe | 34 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 63K | 1 | Menekşe | 2 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 151K | 4 | Menekşe | 2 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 130K | 9 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Menekşe | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 50 | 1 in 346K | 50 | Menekşe | 3 |
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); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; 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)
Menekşe 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, Mor renkli, güzel kokulu çiçekler açan, çok yıllık otsu bir bitki.
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)
- Menekşe Toprakb. 1970TRTurkish translator and writer (born 1970)
- Demet Menekşe UludağTRTurkish researcher
- Menekşe ErmişTRTurkish researcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 50 | #8,424 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 44 | #12,770 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 1 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Menekşe mean, and where does it come from?
- violet Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Menekşe a male or female name?
- Menekşe is a female 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 Menekşe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Menekşe in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled menekşe.
- How common is the name Menekşe?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 50 people named Menekşe, about 1 in 346 thousand residents.
- How common is Menekşe compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Menekşe is the 702nd most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Menekşe?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/menek%C5%9FeThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Menekşe” — the 702nd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.