Bekir
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bekir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 40th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Sabahları erken kalkmayı alışkanlık edinen kimse.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 640(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 5.4K
- NLNetherlands1 in 46K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bekir itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 640 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Бекир in UZ Uzbekistan.
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(measured from records)
Sabahları erken kalkmayı alışkanlık edinen kimse.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bekir 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 | #40 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 640 | #99 | Bekir | 133 |
| SY Syria | #646 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Bekir | 6 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Бекир | 5 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | 84 | — | — |
| FR France | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 71K | 275 | — | 3 |
| CY Cyprus | #170 | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Bekir | 16 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 373 | 1 in 46K | 373 | Bekir | 30 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 241as Бекир | 1 in 8.8K | 318 | — | 8 |
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: the tr-tuik-child-stats register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); State Statistical Office — living population names; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Bekir is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In xgn-pro, sterlet
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In xgn-pro, стерлядь
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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)
- Bekir Sami Kunduhb. 1865TRTurkish statesperson (1865–1933)
- Refik Koraltanb. 1889TRnot in their usual nameTurkish statesperson (1889–1974)
- Bekir Çoban-zadeb. 1893UACrimean Tatar intellectual (1893–1937)
- Bekir Refet Tekerb. 1899TRTurkish association football player (1899–1977)
- Bekir Sıdkı Sezginb. 1936TRTurkish composer (1936–1996)
- Baker Abdel Munemb. 1942PSnot in their usual namePalestinian diplomat (1942–2023)
- Bakr Abu Zaydb. 1944SAnot in their usual nameSaudi Arabian cleric
- Bekir Bozdağb. 1965TRTurkish politician
- Bekir Aslantaşb. 1968TRTurkish actor (born 1968)
- Bekir İrtegünb. 1984TRTurkish association football player (born 1984)
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 48 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 373 | #1,965 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2016 | 275 | #2,394 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 248 | #4,856 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2022 | 84 | #1,811 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2022 | 1 | #2,059 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 1997 | — | #99 |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Bekir mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sabahları erken kalkmayı alışkanlık edinen kimse.
- Is Bekir a male or female name?
- Bekir is a male 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.
- In which country does Bekir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 128 thousand people named Bekir in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bekir.
- How common is the name Bekir?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 373 people named Bekir, about 1 in 46 thousand residents.
- How common is Bekir compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Bekir is the 40th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bekir?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bekirThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Bekir” — the 40th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.