Cete
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A cetacean
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Cete is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 23K
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 784K
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
- 37 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Çete in TR Türkiye, CY Cyprus.
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A cetacean.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cete 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 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Çete | 37 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Çete | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 784K | — | Cete | 4 |
| US United States | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 24M | listed | Cete | 22 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 10M | — | Cete | 7 |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cete 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 Latin, nominative/accusative plural of cētos
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, alternative form of ċȳte
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, plural of ceată
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Tatar, sharp
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, whale
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #141,253 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Cete mean, and where does it come from?
- A cetacean. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Cete have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Cete in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled çete.
- How common is the name Cete?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3 people named Cete in 2026, about 1 in 13 million residents.
What do you want to know about Cete?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ceteThe 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, “Cete”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.