Uluçay
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/uɫut͡ʃaj/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Uluçay is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 9.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 442K
- BEBelgium1 in 1.7M
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
- 43 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Uluçay
- Turkish:/uɫut͡ʃaj/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Uluçay is found
(measured from records)Uluçay 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 | — | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | — | Uluçay | 43 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 146K | — | Uluçay | 1 |
| CY Cyprus | #776 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Uluçay | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 863K | — | Uluçay | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 19 | 1 in 442K | 19 | Uluçay | 2 |
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: 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)- Ahmet Uluçayb. 1878TRTurkish statesperson (1878–1967)
- Çağatay Uluçayb. 1907TRTurkish historian and writer (1907–1970)
- Ahmet Uluçayb. 1954TRTurkish film director (1954–2009)
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Uluçay?
- In Turkish /uɫut͡ʃaj/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Uluçay?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.1 thousand people named Uluçay in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled uluçay. After it come Uzbekistan, Cyprus, Netherlands and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Uluçay?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 19 people named Uluçay in 2024, about 1 in 442 thousand residents.
- How common is Uluçay compared with other names?
- In Cyprus, Uluçay is the 776th most common surname of 24,832 surnames 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/ulu%C3%A7ayThe 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, “Uluçay” — the 776th most common surname in Cyprus. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.