Cakmak
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
/ʒakmak/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Cakmak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 58th most common surname. Cakmak is also written Чакмак in Cyrillic.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 620(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 1.8Kfew records
- DKDenmark1 in 21K
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 Cakmak 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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 621 (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Cakmak in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Çakmak in TR Türkiye, CY Cyprus, 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.
How to pronounce Cakmak
- Turkish:/ʒakmak/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Cakmak is found
(measured from records)Cakmak 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 | #58 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 621 | — | Çakmak | 100 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Cakmak | 105 |
| CY Cyprus | #119 | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Çakmak | 9 |
| FR France | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 115K | 114 | Cakmak | 130 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Çakmak | 5 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Cakmak | 28 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 423 | 1 in 41K | 423 | Cakmak | 29 |
| DK Denmark | — | 286 | 1 in 21K | 286 | — | 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)- Mustafa Fevzi Çakmakb. 1876TRTurkish military officer and statesperson (1876–1950)
- Barış Çakmakb. 1979TRTurkish actor (born 1979)
- Sedef Çakmakb. 1982TRTurkish politician and LGBT rights activist
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Cakmak?
- In Turkish /ʒakmak/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Cakmak?
- Mondonomo estimates about 138 thousand people named Cakmak in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled çakmak. After it come Germany, Cyprus, France and Azerbaijan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Cakmak?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 423 people named Cakmak in 2007, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
- How common is Cakmak compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Cakmak is the 58th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cakmakThe 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, “Cakmak” — the 58th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.