Yakın

surname · Latin script

Meaning: close by, nearby

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Yakın is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Türkiye.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye
  • MYMalaysia
  • DEGermany

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

close by, nearby

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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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)

Yakın 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 otk, near

    as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)

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)

192019401960198020002020Abraham Yakin, b. 1924Necdet Yakın, b. 1932Gaffar Yakın, b. 1954Boaz Yakin, b. 1966Murat Yakın, b. 1974Hakan Yakın, b. 1977Alexander Yakin, b. 1990Talha Yakın, b. 2004
  • Abraham Yakinb. 1924ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli painter (1924-2020)
  • Necdet Yakınb. 1932TRTurkish actor (1932–2006)
  • Gaffar Yakınb. 1954TRTurkish statesperson (born 1954)
  • Boaz Yakinb. 1966USnot in their usual nameAmerican screenwriter and film director
  • Murat Yakınb. 1974CHSwiss association football player and coach
  • Hakan Yakınb. 1977CHTurkish-Swiss association football player (born 1977)
  • Alexander Yakinb. 1990RUnot in their usual nameRussian actor
  • Talha Yakınb. 2004TRTurkish association football player (born 2004)

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 2 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Yakın mean, and where does it come from?
close by, nearby Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Yakın?
In the etymology graph, Yakin is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Yakın have the most bearers?
Yakın is most frequently recorded in Türkiye.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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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, “Yakın”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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