Oqtay
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Oqtay is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Azerbaijan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle Mongol ᠥᠭᠡᠳᠡᠢ (ögädäi), probably via a recent borrowing from late Ottoman Turkish اوقتای (Oktay).
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 6.6Kas Ogtay(inferred from the name graph)
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 27Kas Октай
- RURussia≈1 in 105Kas Октай
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 Oqtay 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.
- Azerbaijan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 named Ogtay, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est., as Ogtay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Октай in RU Russia, AZ Azerbaijan, Oktay in BG Bulgaria, NL Netherlands and Актай in KZ Kazakhstan.
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)From Middle Mongol ᠥᠭᠡᠳᠡᠢ (ögädäi), probably via a recent borrowing from late Ottoman Turkish اوقتای (Oktay). It became popular as a male given name in Turkey in the beginning of the XXth century, although used as family name by persons born at least in 1880s..
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Oqtay 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | 115 | Октай | 22 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 105K | register #2,193 | Октай | 105 |
| BG Bulgaria | #642 | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Oktay | 47 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 254as Oktay | 1 in 68K | 254 | Oktay | 2 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 55 | Актай | 21 |
| DK Denmark | — | 102as Oktay | 1 in 58K | 102 | — | — |
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: Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)- Ogtay Melikovb. 1925AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani historian
- Ogtay Salamzadeb. 1930AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani writer
- Ogtay Eldegezb. 1934AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani writer
- Oqtay Babazadəb. 1941screenwriter
- Ogtay Mirgasimovb. 1943AZnot in their usual nameactor
- Ogtay Asadovb. 1955AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani politician serving as the Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan
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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 101 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Oqtay mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle Mongol ᠥᠭᠡᠳᠡᠢ (ögädäi), probably via a recent borrowing from late Ottoman Turkish اوقتای (Oktay). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Oqtay?
- In the etymology graph, Ogtay is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Oqtay a male or female name?
- Oqtay is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice).
- In which country does Oqtay have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Ogtay in Azerbaijan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Oqtay?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 254 people named Oktay, about 1 in 68 thousand residents.
- How common is Oqtay compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Oqtay is the 642nd most common given name of 22,906 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/oqtayThe 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, “Oqtay” — the 642nd most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.