Oktai
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Siseministeerium, 2023
/ɐktaj/(machine-generated) Russian · model-generated · read from октай
Oktai is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 220K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 2.8M
- BEBelgium≈1 in 6.1M
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 Oktai itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 216K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 named Октай, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Октай in RU Russia, AZ Azerbaijan, Oktay in BG Bulgaria, NL Netherlands and Актай in KZ Kazakhstan.
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.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Oktai 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 99K | register #2,193 | Октай | 105 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 8K | 115 | Октай | 22 |
| BG Bulgaria | #642 | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Oktay | 47 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 254as Oktay | 1 in 68K | 254 | Oktay | 2 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 93K | 55 | Актай | 21 |
| DK Denmark | — | 102as Oktay | 1 in 58K | 102 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 216K | 7 | — | 3 |
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: Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)- Ogtay Melikovb. 1925AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani historian
- Ogtay Mirgasimovb. 1943AZnot in their usual nameactor
- Ogtay Asadovb. 1955AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani politician serving as the Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Oktai?
- It depends on the language: in Russian /ɐktaj/; in Turkish /oktai/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Oktai a male or female name?
- Oktai 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Oktai?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Октай in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Netherlands and Kazakhstan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Oktai?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 254 people named Oktay, about 1 in 68 thousand residents.
- How common is Oktai compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Oktai is the 642nd most common given name of 22,906 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oktaiThe 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, “Oktai” — the 642nd most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.