Asker
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Asker is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: soldier (any member of a military, regardless of specialty or rank).
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 41K(inferred from the name graph)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 14K
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Asker itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
soldier (any member of a military, regardless of specialty or rank)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Asker 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 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Asker | 43 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Asker | 2 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 1 | Asker | 16 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Asker | 3 |
| RU Russia | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 459K | — | Asker | 13 |
| DK Denmark | 270 | 1 in 22K | 270 | — | — |
| GE Georgia | 108as ასკერ | 1 in 37K | 108 | Asker | 7 |
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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API). 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)
Asker is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Scandinavian name; "ask, spear"
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In enm, One who prays towards or supplicates a divinity.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Someone who asks a question.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, plural indefinite of aske
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In crh, soldier; warrior
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)
- Asker Ali Abiyevb. 1934AZThe inventor of magic square algorithm
- Asker Jeukendrupb. 1969NLDutch nutritionist and physiologist
- Asker Dzhappuyevb. 1971RUJihadist leader (1971-2011)
- Asker Hedegaard Boyeb. 1982Danish journalist
- Asker Azikovb. 1996association football player
- Asker Kurmanovb. 1998association football player
- Asker Beckb. 2003Danish footballer (born 2003)
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 32 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 9 | #42,475 |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Asker mean, and where does it come from?
- soldier (any member of a military, regardless of specialty or rank) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Asker a male or female name?
- Asker is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Asker have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Asker in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled asker.
- How common is the name Asker?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 270 people named Asker, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Asker?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/askerThe 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, “Asker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.