Akbay
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Dürüst zengin
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/akbˈaj/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Akbay is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 5.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 2.9M
- CYCyprus≈1 in 64K
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 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Dürüst zengin.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Akbay 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 | #661 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Akbay | 72 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 204K | — | Akbay | 54 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 268K | — | Akbay | 5 |
| US United States | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | listed | Akbay | 86 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 986K | — | Akbay | 5 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 181K | — | Akbay | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 32 | 1 in 540K | 32 | Akbay | 7 |
| FI Finland | — | 22 | 1 in 253K | 22 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Akbay | 5 |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Akbay is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In bik, act or manner of placing one's arm over another's shoulder
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hnn, act or manner of putting one's arm over another's shoulder
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, having an arm over another's shoulder
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)
- Hamit Akbayb. 1900TRTurkish association football player (18..–19..)
- İsmail Akbayb. 1930TRTurkish physicist (1930–2003)
- Günal Akbayb. 1935TRTurkish academic (born 1935)
- Nihat Akbayb. 1945TRTurkish association football player (1945–2020)
- Serhat Akbayb. 1952TRTurkish architect (born 1952)
- Ercan Akbayb. 1959TRTurkish painter and writer (born 1959)
- Burak Akbayb. 1971TRTurkish businessperson (born 1971)
- Onur Akbayb. 1986TRTurkish association football player (born 1986)
- Erol AkbayTRTurkish-Dutch association football manager
- Muzaffer AkbayTRTurkish mathematician
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 16 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 32 | #39,943 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 22 | #41,267 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Akbay?
- A machine transcription gives /akbˈaj/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Akbay mean?
- Recorded meaning: Dürüst zengin.
- In which country does Akbay have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Akbay in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled akbay.
- How common is the name Akbay?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 32 people named Akbay in 2007, about 1 in 540 thousand residents.
- How common is Akbay compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Akbay is the 661st 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/akbayThe 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, “Akbay” — the 661st most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.