Alaca
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Alaca is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 1. Birkaç rengin karışımından oluşan renk.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 7.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 96K
- BEBelgium1 in 206K
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
- 56 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. Birkaç rengin karışımından oluşan renk. 2. Birkaç renkli iplikten yapılmış dokuma. 3. Ağaçta ilk olgunlaşan meyve.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alaca 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.
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
- İsmail Hakkı Alacab. 1907TRTurkish statesperson (1907–1977)
- Ali Alacab. 1997ATAustrian association football player
- Yâren Alacab. 2003TRTurkish actor (born 2003)
- Cihangir AlacaTRTurkish mathematician
- Erdem AlacaTRTurkish 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 472 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 57 | #23,813 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 41 | #34,656 |
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
- What does the name Alaca mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Birkaç rengin karışımından oluşan renk.
- In which country does Alaca have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Alaca in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alaca.
- How common is the name Alaca?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 472 people named Alaca, about 1 in 96 thousand residents.
- How common is Alaca compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Alaca is the 811th 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/alacaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Alaca” — the 811th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.