Balcı
surname · Latin script
Meaning: honey-dealer, a person who sells and trades honey (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Balcı is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 99th most common surname.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 890(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 3.3Kfew records
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 340Kfew records
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)
- Record sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 886 (inferred from the name graph)
≈96,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)honey-dealer, a person who sells and trades honey
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Balcı is found
(measured from records)Balcı 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 | #99 | ≈96,000 est. | ≈1 in 886 | Balcı | 84 |
| CY Cyprus | #255 | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | Balcı | 5 |
| MK North Macedonia | #672 | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 29K | Balcı | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 341K | Balcı | 10 |
| US United States | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 12M | Balcı | 46 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 346K | Balcı | 11 |
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.
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)- Tamer Balcıb. 1918TRTurkish actor (1918–1993)
- Serhat Balcıb. 1982TRTurkish wrestler (born 1982)
- Serkan Balcıb. 1983TRTurkish association football player (born 1983)
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Balcı mean, and where does it come from?
- honey-dealer, a person who sells and trades honey Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Balcı?
- Mondonomo estimates about 96 thousand people named Balcı in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled balcı. After it come Cyprus, North Macedonia, Netherlands and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Balcı?
- Mondonomo estimates about 96,000 people in Türkiye have Balcı as their first surname, about 1 in 886 residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Balcı compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Balcı is the 99th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/balc%C4%B1The 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, “Balcı” — the 99th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.