Naci
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Naci is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 1. Kurtulan, selamete kavuşan.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 3.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 18K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 10K
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)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. Kurtulan, selamete kavuşan. 2. Cehennemden kurtulmuş, cennetlik.
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)
Naci 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 | #449 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Naci | 86 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Naci | 5 |
| BR Brazil | — | 356 | 1 in 595K | 356 | — | — |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 137K | listed | Naci | 5 |
| FR France | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 409K | 15 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 90K | 2 | Naci | 9 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 69K | 11 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | #712 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Naci | 13 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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)
Naci is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cau-nkh-pro, moth
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In English, Acronym of National Advisory Committee on Immunization.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, first-person singular preterite indicative of nacer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, trousers, (US) pants
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, inflection of nać:
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)
- Naci Eldenizb. 1875TRTurkish general and statesperson (1875–1948)
- Naci Tınazb. 1882TRTurkish general and statesperson (1884–1964)
- Naci Özkayab. 1922TRTurkish association football player and manager (1922–2007)
- Naci Erdemb. 1931TRTurkish association football player (1931–2022)
- Naci Görürb. 1947TRTurkish geoscientist (born 1947)
- Naci Bostancıb. 1957TRTurkish statesperson (born 1957)
- Naci Şensoyb. 1958TRTurkish association football player and manager (born 1958)
- Naci Ağbalb. 1968TRPresident of Central Bank of Turkish Republic
- Naci Ünüvarb. 2003NLTurkish-Dutch association football player (born 2003)
- Naci AdıgüzelTRTurkish actor
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 32 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 356 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 335 | #18,413 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 329 | #16,903 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 325 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 306 | #10,468 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 273 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 163 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 110 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 89 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 74 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 52 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 47 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
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 Naci mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Kurtulan, selamete kavuşan.
- Is Naci a male or female name?
- Naci 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.
- What are other forms of the name Naci?
- In the etymology graph, Naji is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Naci have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Naci in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled naci.
- How common is the name Naci?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 356 people named Naci in 2022, about 1 in 595 thousand residents.
- How common is Naci compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Naci is the 449th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Naci?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/naciThe 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, “Naci” — the 449th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.