Gedik

surname · Latin script

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

Gedik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: crevice.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CYCyprus≈1 in 30K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 79K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)

≈42,000 people, est.

Sources
87 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

crevice

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gedik 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 Gedik is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#241≈42,000 est.≈1 in 1.9K—Gedik87
FR France—≈370 est.≈1 in 182K68Gedik2
NL Netherlands—2061 in 84K206Gedik15
CH Switzerland—1061 in 79K106Gedik13
US United States—≈78 est.≈1 in 4.2MlistedGedik67
BE Belgium—761 in 154K76Gedik15
CY Cyprus—≈42 est.≈1 in 30K—Gedik13

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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Gedik is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Türkiye, United States, Austria

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Gédik

  • Bulgarian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Bulgaria, Netherlands, Poland

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Polish

    Also written Гедик

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Гедик

34 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gedik 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 Turkish, 1. Büyük çentik, yıkık yer. 2. Dağ geçidi. 3. Güçlük, güç durum. 4. Yüksek yer, tepe. 5. Ayrıcalık, verilmiş hak. 6. Görev, vazife.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

  • In vo, gray, grey

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

1400160018002000Simon Gedik, b. 1551Süleyman Sırrı Gedik, b. 1862İsmail Hakkı Gedik, b. 1896Namık Gedik, b. 1911Melahat Gedik, b. 1915Ahmet Şevket Gedik, b. 1922İhsan Gedik, b. 1942Mustafa Gedik, b. 1953Mehmet Gedik, b. 1953Ömür Gedik, b. 1970

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 15 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Gedik
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007206#10,122
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024106#10,554
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200876#19,157
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199168—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198136—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197115—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19611—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951——
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941——
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931——
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921——

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 Gedik mean, and where does it come from?
crevice Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Gedik have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Gedik in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gedik.
How common is the name Gedik?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 206 people named Gedik in 2007, about 1 in 84 thousand residents.
How common is Gedik compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Gedik is the 241st most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Gedik” — the 241st most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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