Takas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: trade, barter, swap
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/t̪akas̪/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Takas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.4Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2.1M
- ARArgentina1 in 4.1M
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.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
≈260 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Greece, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Takaş in TR Türkiye.
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)trade, barter, swap
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Takas 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 1 | Takas | 29 |
| US United States | 159 | 1 in 2.1M | 170 | Takas | 107 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 647K | — | Takaş | 3 |
| PH Philippines | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Takas | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Takas | 16 |
| IE Ireland | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 695K | — | Takas | 1 |
| BZ Belize | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 232K | — | Takas | 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers). 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)Takas 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 Filipino, escape; fleeing; running away
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, alternative form of takaisin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In poz-oce-pro, loosen, untie, set free
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Lithuanian, footpath, path
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In poz-pro, quick, agile
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 170 | #110,517 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 159 | #110,825 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 156 | #105,905 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Takas mean, and where does it come from?
- trade, barter, swap Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Takas?
- In Turkish /t̪akas̪/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Takas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 262 people named Takas in Greece, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled takas.
- How common is the name Takas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 159 people named Takas in 2010, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Takas?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/takasThe 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, “Takas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.