Islek
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/islec/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Islek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 46K(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 208K
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 396K
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
- 36 (measured from records)
- 1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
≈210 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Işlek 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.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Islek 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 | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 396K | — | Işlek | 12 |
| DE Germany | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 536K | — | Islek | 36 |
| NO Norway | 120 | 1 in 46K | 120 | — | 3 |
| AT Austria | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Islek | 6 |
| US United States | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 15M | — | Islek | 34 |
| CH Switzerland | 14 | 1 in 600K | 14 | — | 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 120 | #12,942 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 14 | #47,506 |
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
- How do you pronounce Islek?
- A machine transcription gives /islec/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Islek have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 207 people named Islek in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled işlek.
- Where is Islek most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Islek is densest in Norway — about 1 in 46 thousand people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Islek?
- In Norway, the national register counted 120 people named Islek, about 1 in 46 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Islek?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/islekThe 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, “Islek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.