Cenker
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Savaş eri, savaşçı kimse
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/d͡ʒencɛɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cenker is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 96K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 50K
- ATAustria≈1 in 345K
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
- 56 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
≈860 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Savaş eri, savaşçı kimse.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cenker 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 | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Cenker | 56 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Cenker | 5 |
| AT Austria | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 345K | 3 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 38M | listed | Cenker | 28 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 9.9M | — | Cenker | 12 |
| NL Netherlands | 5 | 1 in 3.5M | 5 | Cenker | 3 |
| LV Latvia | 1 | 1 in 1.9M | 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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)
- Cenker Pehlivanb. 1990TRTurkish association football player (born 1990)
- Cenker Köktenaudio engineer
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 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
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 Cenker?
- A machine transcription gives /d͡ʒencɛɾ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Cenker mean?
- Recorded meaning: Savaş eri, savaşçı kimse.
- Is Cenker a male or female name?
- Cenker 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 Cenker have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 858 people named Cenker in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cenker.
- How common is the name Cenker?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 5 people named Cenker, about 1 in 3.5 million 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/cenkerThe 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, “Cenker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.