Berke
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Kamçı
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɛrkˈɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Berke is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 6.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 3.7K
- ATAustria≈1 in 29K
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)
- Sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Kamçı.
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)
Berke 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 | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | #76 | Berke | 89 |
| CY Cyprus | #629 | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Berke | 18 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 124 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 234 | 1 in 74K | 228 | Berke | 9 |
| US United States | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | 2.7K | Berke | 73 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 59K | 22 | Berke | 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.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Berke 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, pers. name (B. Breathed)
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In xgn-pro, difficult; competent, skilled
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Hungarian, third-person singular single-possession possessive of berek
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dum, birch
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In xgn-pro, трудный, тяжелый; сведущий в чем-л., компетентный
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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)
- Berkeb. 1209GEKhan of the Golden Horde from 1257 to 1266
- Berke Hürcanb. 1972TRTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1972)
- Berke Hatipoğlub. 1976TRTurkish musician (born 1976)
- Berke Üzrekb. 1979TRTurkish actor (born 1979)
- Berke Aygündüzb. 1998TRTurkish basketball player (born 1998)
- Ragıp Atarb. 1999TRnot in their usual nameTurkish basketball player (born 1997)
- Berke Özerb. 2000TRTurkish association football player (born 2000)
- Berke Akçamb. 2002TRTurkish high hurdler (born 2002)
- Berke Sakab. 2003TRTurkish swimmer (born 2003)
- Emir Berke Zincidib. 2005TRTurkish actor (born 2005)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.7K | #11,504 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,128 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #15,103 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 34 | #38,777 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 22 | #34,100 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Berke?
- A machine transcription gives /bɛrkˈɛ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Berke a male or female name?
- Berke 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.
- What does the name Berke mean?
- Recorded meaning: Kamçı.
- In which country does Berke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Berke in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled berke.
- How common is the name Berke?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 234 people named Berke, about 1 in 74 thousand residents.
- How common is Berke compared with other names?
- In Cyprus, Berke is the 629th most common given name of 8,840 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Berke?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/berkeThe 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, “Berke” — the 629th most common given name in Cyprus. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.