Şefika
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Şefkatli, acıması olan, esirgeyici
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Şefika is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 4.1Kfew records
- CYCyprus≈1 in 4.5Kfew records
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
- 44 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈45,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sefika in US United States.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Şefkatli, acıması olan, esirgeyici.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Şefika 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 | #352 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Şefika | 44 |
| AF Afghanistan | #618 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Şefika | 3 |
| CY Cyprus | #432 | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Şefika | 9 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Şefika | 3 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | Şefika | 2 |
| US United States | — | 189 | 1 in 1.8M | 187 | Sefika | 29 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 151 | 1 in 14K | 153 | — | 1 |
| MK North Macedonia | #269 | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Şefika | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)- Şefika Gaspıralıb. 1886TRCrimean Tatar feminist leader (1886–1975)
- Şefika Kutluerb. 1961TRTurkish flutist (born 1961)
- Şefika Otb. 1990TRTurkish wrestler (born 1990)
- Şefika Altındalb. 1997TRTurkish association football player (born 1997)
- Şefika EfeoğluTRTurkish academic
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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Reference works 2
- 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
- Is Şefika a male or female name?
- Şefika is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Şefika mean?
- Recorded meaning: Şefkatli, acıması olan, esirgeyici.
- In which country does Şefika have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 45 thousand people named Şefika in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled şefika.
- How common is the name Şefika?
- In the United States, the national register counted 189 people named Şefika in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
- How common is Şefika compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Şefika is the 352nd most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9FefikaThe 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, “Şefika” — the 352nd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.