Korkut
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Büyük dolu tanesi
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɔrkˈʊt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Korkut is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 22K
- HRCroatia1 in 51K
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
- 83 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈27,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. Büyük dolu tanesi. 2. Cin, şeytan gibi hayalî yaratıklar. 3. Korkusuz, yavuz, heybetli.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Korkut 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 | #355 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Korkut | 83 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 69K | 4 | Korkut | 3 |
| FR France | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 522K | 22 | Korkut | 1 |
| US United States | — | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | listed | Korkut | 54 |
| HR Croatia | — | 83 | 1 in 51K | 83 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Korkut | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 51 | 1 in 165K | 51 | Korkut | 9 |
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 us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)
Korkut is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Serbo-Croatian, muslimansko prezime
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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)
- Şerif Korkutb. 1895TRTurkish statesperson (1895–1957)
- Hasan Korkutb. 1927TRTurkish statesperson (born 1927)
- Tayfun Korkutb. 1974DETurkish association football player and coach (born 1974)
- Ozan Korkutb. 1974TRTurkish basketball player (born 1974)
- Ersin Korkutb. 1977TRTurkish actor of Kurdish ancestry (born 1977)
- Hande Korkutb. 1990TRTurkish volleyball player (born 1990)
- Kübra Korkutb. 1994TRTurkish wheelchair tennis player (born 1994)
- Efe Korkutb. 2006TRTurkish association football player (born 2006)
- Emre KorkutTRTurkish researcher
- Bora KorkutTRTurkish researcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 83 | #9,194 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 71 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 51 | #18,386 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 9 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
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
- How do you pronounce Korkut?
- A machine transcription gives /kɔrkˈʊt/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Korkut mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Büyük dolu tanesi.
- In which country does Korkut have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 27 thousand people named Korkut in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled korkut.
- How common is the name Korkut?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 83 people named Korkut in 2021, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
- How common is Korkut compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Korkut is the 355th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/korkutThe 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, “Korkut” — the 355th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.