Aktay
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Beyaz tay
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aktˈaj/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aktay is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 7.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 227K
- ATAustria≈1 in 277K
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
- 60 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Beyaz tay.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aktay 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 | #880 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | — | Aktay | 60 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 461K | — | Aktay | 43 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 382K | — | Aktay | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 45 | 1 in 227K | 45 | Aktay | 12 |
| US United States | — | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 8.7M | — | Aktay | 53 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 277K | — | Aktay | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 20 | 1 in 420K | 20 | Aktay | 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Salih Zeki Aktayb. 1896TRTurkish poet (1896–1971)
- Yasin Aktayb. 1966TRTurkish sociologist and statesperson (born 1966)
- Nesheb. 1990TRnot in their usual nameTurkish singer (born 1990)
- Can Demir Aktavb. 1994TRnot in their usual nameTurkish association football player (born 1994)
- Fatih Aktayb. 1997TRTurkish association football player (born 1997)
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 13 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 45 | #13,752 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 20 | #36,564 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Aktay?
- A machine transcription gives /aktˈaj/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Aktay mean?
- Recorded meaning: Beyaz tay.
- In which country does Aktay have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Aktay in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aktay.
- How common is the name Aktay?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 45 people named Aktay, about 1 in 227 thousand residents.
- How common is Aktay compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Aktay is the 880th most common surname of 619,652 surnames 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/aktayThe 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, “Aktay” — the 880th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.