Aktas
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aktas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aktas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 26th most common surname.
- TRTürkiye1 in 368(measured from records)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 9K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 3K
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 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 147 (measured from records)
- 1 in 368 (inferred from the name graph)
222,711 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Aktaş in TR Türkiye, BE Belgium, CY Cyprus and 3 more and Agdas in AZ Azerbaijan.
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 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aktas 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 | #26 | 222,711 | 1 in 368 | 223K | Aktaş | 110 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 49K | 219 | Aktaş | 4 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Agdas | 5 |
| BE Belgium | — | 650 | 1 in 18K | 822 | Aktaş | 33 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Aktaş | 2 |
| CY Cyprus | #79 | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Aktaş | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 376 | 1 in 22K | 376 | Aktaş | 18 |
222,711 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used surnames, 2025. 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: TÜİK NIP — most used surnames; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Aktas 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 Swedish, passive infinitive of akta
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)
- Aksel Aktaşb. 1999FRTurkish-French association football player (born 1999)
- Bülent AktaşTRTurkish screenwriter
- Orhan AktaşTRTurkish researcher
- Mehmet AktaşTRPh.D. Indiana University 2007
- Mehmet AktaşTRTurkish academic
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 22 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 822 | #1,699 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 650 | #2,250 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 376 | #3,496 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 219 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 152 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 65 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 2 | — |
| 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 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Aktas?
- A machine transcription gives /aktas/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Aktas have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 223 thousand people named Aktas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aktaş.
- Where is Aktas most common?
- Aktas is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 368 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Aktas?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 222,711 people named Aktas in 2025, about 1 in 368 residents.
- How common is Aktas compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Aktas is the 26th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Aktas?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aktasThe 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, “Aktas” — the 26th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.