Atabey
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/atabˈɛj/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Atabey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: bk. Atabek.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 8.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 49K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 68K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 66 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Atabəy in AZ Azerbaijan.
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)
bk. Atabek.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Atabey 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 | #932 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Atabey | 66 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Atabey | 4 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 284K | — | Atabey | 38 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 69K | 58 | Atabəy | 10 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 86K | 2 | Atabey | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 61 | 1 in 283K | 61 | Atabey | 11 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Atabey | 8 |
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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)
- Eşref Şefikb. 1894TRnot in their usual nameTurkish journalist (1894–1980)
- Fahri Atabeyb. 1913TRTurkish statesperson (1913–1994)
- Miraç Atabeyb. 1989TRTurkish film director and producer (born 1989)
- Birce Atabeyb. 1993TRTurkish figure skater (born 1993)
- Burak AtabeyTRTurkish businessperson
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 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 61 | #27,104 |
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 Atabey?
- A machine transcription gives /atabˈɛj/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Atabey mean?
- Recorded meaning: bk. Atabek.
- In which country does Atabey have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.8 thousand people named Atabey in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled atabey.
- How common is the name Atabey?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 61 people named Atabey in 2007, about 1 in 283 thousand residents.
- How common is Atabey compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Atabey is the 932nd most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Atabey?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/atabeyThe 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, “Atabey” — the 932nd most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.