Burkay
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Burkay is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 1. Ay, hilal.2. Gücenmiş, kırılmış kimse.
- DKDenmark1 in 652K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.4M
- PLPoland1 in 9.6M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 652K (inferred from the name graph)
12 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. Ay, hilal.2. Gücenmiş, kırılmış kimse.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Burkay 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 12 | 1 in 1.4M | 12 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 9 | 1 in 652K | 9 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 4 | — | — |
| TR Türkiye | — | — | — | Burkay | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | — | 9 | — | — |
12 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 9 | #42,447 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #314,456 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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 Burkay mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Ay, hilal.2. Gücenmiş, kırılmış kimse.
- Is Burkay a male or female name?
- Burkay 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 Burkay have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 12 people named Burkay, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Burkay most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Burkay is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 652 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Burkay?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 12 people named Burkay, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Burkay?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/burkayThe 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, “Burkay”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.