Arık
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Temiz, saf, duru.2
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aɾɯk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arık is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 12K
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 171K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. 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 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈30,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. Temiz, saf, duru.2. Zayıf, cılız. 3. Su yolu, ark. 4. Dere, çay. 5. Fidan dikilen yer.
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)
Arık 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 | #314 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Arık | 56 |
| CY Cyprus | #637 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Arık | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 171K | 19 | Arık | 6 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 199K | — | Arık | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 223K | — | Arık | 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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)
Arık 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 otk, an irrigation canal
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
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)
- Remzi Oğuz Arıkb. 1899TRTurkish archaeologist and statesperson (1899–1954)
- Nermin Arıkb. 1928TRTurkish mathematician (1928–2005)
- Umut Arıkb. 1938TRTurkish diplomat (born 1938)
- Engin Arıkb. 1948TRTurkish physicist (1948–2007)
- Metin Arikb. 1948TRnot in their usual nameTurkish mathematician (born 1948)
- Çetin Arıkb. 1971TRTurkish statesperson (born 1971)
- Ünsal Arıkb. 1980TRTurkish boxer (born 1980)
- Mevlüt Arıkb. 1988TRTurkish wrestler (born 1988)
- Fatma Arıkb. 1997TRTurkish athlete (born 1997)
- Engin ArıkTRpsychology and linguistics researcher ORCID id 0000-0002-0981-257X
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 5 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 4
- 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)
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 Arık?
- A machine transcription gives /aɾɯk/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Arık mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Temiz, saf, duru.2.
- In which country does Arık have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Arık in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arık.
- How common is the name Arık?
- Mondonomo estimates about 30,000 people in Türkiye have Arık as their first surname, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Arık compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Arık is the 314th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Arık?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ar%C4%B1kThe 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, “Arık” — the 314th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.