Degenek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: stick (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: DZS, 2021
/deɟenec/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Degenek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 302K(measured from records)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 720Kfew records
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
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 302K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Değenek in TR Türkiye.
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 Degenek
- Turkish:/deɟenec/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)stick
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Degenek is found
(measured from records)Degenek 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.
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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)- Miloš Degenekb. 1994AUAustralian association football player
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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Degenek mean, and where does it come from?
- stick Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Degenek?
- In Turkish /deɟenec/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Degenek?
- Mondonomo estimates about 119 people named Degenek in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled değenek. After it come Croatia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Degenek most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Degenek is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 302 thousand people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Degenek?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 14 people named Degenek in 2021, about 1 in 302 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/degenekThe 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, “Degenek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.