Çankaya

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Taşları katmer katmer kalkan kaya

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Çankaya is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Türkiye.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye
  • PKPakistan
  • CNChina

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.

Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
73 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Turkish

Taşları katmer katmer kalkan kaya.

Sources 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Çankaya counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Çankaya is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye——Çankaya63
US United States—listedÇankaya46
PK Pakistan——Çankaya1
GB United Kingdom——Çankaya27
CN China——Çankaya2
NL Netherlands—123—20
BE Belgium—117—9
DK Denmark—56——

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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Çankaya is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Also written Cankaya

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cankaya

  • a separate name9 spellings in the group

    Also written Cankaya

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Cankaya

28 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Mehmet Mesut Çankaya, b. 1887Nazım Çankaya, b. 1936Erol Çankaya, b. 1955Sinan Çankaya, b. 1982Atakan Çankaya, b. 1998

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 8 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Çankaya
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007123#16,130

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 Çankaya mean?
Recorded meaning: Taşları katmer katmer kalkan kaya.
In which country does Çankaya have the most bearers?
Çankaya is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled çankaya.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A7ankaya

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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, “Çankaya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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