Atabek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Selçuklularda şehzadelerin eğitimiyle görevli kimse, lala
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/atabec/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Atabek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kazakhstan than in any other country.
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 3.6Kas Атабек(inferred from the name graph)
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 11Kas Атабек
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 22Kas Атабек
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 Atabek 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.
- Kazakhstan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- 1 in 470K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 named Атабек, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Атабек in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and 2 more.
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)
Selçuklularda şehzadelerin eğitimiyle görevli kimse, lala.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Atabek 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 1.9K | Атабек | 32 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #550 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Атабек | 14 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #614 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 22K | listed | Атабек | 14 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 134K | #3,477 | Атабек | 85 |
| TJ Tajikistan | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Атабек | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 31 | 1 in 1.2M | 31 | — | 2 |
| LV Latvia | — | 4 | 1 in 470K | 4 | — | 1 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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)
- Osman Server Atabekb. 1886TRTurkish statesperson (1886–1962)
- Gürbüz Atabekb. 1929TRTurkish statesperson (1929–2017)
- Erdal Atabekb. 1930TRTurkish physician (1930–2024)
- Ümit Atabekb. 1955TRTurkish political scientist (born 1955)
- Bala Atabekb. 1985TRTurkish actor (born 1985)
- Osman AtabekTRTurkish researcher
- Fazıl AtabekTRTurkish chess player
- Gökay AtabekTRTurkish 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 4 countries.
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 Atabek?
- A machine transcription gives /atabec/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Atabek mean?
- Recorded meaning: Selçuklularda şehzadelerin eğitimiyle görevli kimse, lala.
- In which country does Atabek have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Атабек in Kazakhstan, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Atabek most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Atabek is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 470 thousand people — even though Kazakhstan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Atabek?
- In Poland, the national register counted 31 people named Atabek in 2026, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Atabek compared with other names?
- In Kyrgyzstan, Atabek is the 550th most common given name of 146,885 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Atabek?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/atabekThe 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, “Atabek” — the 550th most common given name in Kyrgyzstan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.