Çatay

surname · Latin script

Çatay is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 590Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • ARArgentina1 in 1M
  • CZCzechia1 in 2.7M

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)

≈150 people, est.

Record sources
11 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 585K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Catay in PH Philippines, PE Peru.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where the surname Çatay is found

(measured from records)

Çatay 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.

Where Çatay is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye≈150 est.≈1 in 585K—Çatay11
AR Argentina451 in 1M45——
CZ Czechia41 in 2.7M4——
PH Philippines———Catay3
PE Peru———Catay2

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); MVČR — living population register 2017. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Çatay is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Peru, Germany

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Catay

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Argentina, Philippines, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Catay

  • Arabic name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Catay

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Peru, Indonesia

    Also written Catay

  • Swahili name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Catay

5 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Çatay under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

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

Frequently asked questions

Which countries have the most people with the surname Çatay?
Mondonomo estimates about 146 people named Çatay in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled çatay. After it come Argentina and Czechia; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Çatay?
In Argentina, the national register counted 45 people named Çatay, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.

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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, “Çatay”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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