Cantekin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Samimi, içten hükümdar
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ʒantekin/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Cantekin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 35K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 600K
- NLNetherlands1 in 720K
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)
- Record sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 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)Samimi, içten hükümdar.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cantekin 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 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Cantekin | 36 |
| NL Netherlands | 24 | 1 in 720K | 24 | Cantekin | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | 14 | 1 in 600K | 14 | Cantekin | 4 |
| US United States | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 45M | — | Cantekin | 14 |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Mustafa Cantekinb. 1878TRTurkish physician and statesperson (1878–1955)
- Ahmet Cantekinb. 1955TRTurkish writer (born 1955)
- Duşan Cantekinb. 1990TRTurkish basketball player (born 1990)
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 24 | #45,753 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 14 | #47,506 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #254,152 |
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 Cantekin?
- In Turkish /ʒantekin/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Cantekin mean?
- Recorded meaning: Samimi, içten hükümdar.
- In which country does Cantekin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Cantekin in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cantekin.
- How common is the name Cantekin?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 24 people named Cantekin in 2007, about 1 in 720 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cantekinThe 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, “Cantekin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.