Karakaş

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Gür ve kara kaşları olan kimse

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kaɾakˈaʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Karakaş is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • HRCroatia1 in 12K
  • DEGermany≈1 in 48K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Karakaş itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)

≈77,000 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
129 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KarakaşLatin(measured from records)
КаракашCyrillic(measured from records)
ΚαρακαςGreek(measured from records)

Locally spelled Karakas in DE Germany, AT Austria and Karakaš in HR Croatia.

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)

recorded in Turkish

Gür ve kara kaşları olan kimse.

Sources 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Karakaş 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.

Where Karakaş is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#123≈77,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Karakaş91
CN China—≈7,400 est.≈1 in 187K—Karakaş2
BG Bulgaria—≈1,900 est.≈1 in 3.7K—Karakaş11
DE Germany—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 48K—Karakas85
BR Brazil—1,476as Caracas1 in 143K1.5K——
HR Croatia—3431 in 12K343Karakaš28
AT Austria—≈290 est.≈1 in 31K—Karakas27
CY Cyprus#360≈140 est.≈1 in 9.3K—Karakaş7

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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Karakaş is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Argentina, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Karakas, Kàrakaş, Karakaš

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Karakaș, Karakaš, Karakas

  • Italian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Italy

    Also written Karakas, Karakaš

  • Russian surname21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian

    Also written Каракаш, Karakash, Каракас, Karakas, Karakaš

  • Slovak surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Karakas, Karakaš, Karakás

  • Polish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Poland

    Also written Karakas, Karakaš

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019502000Fethi Karakaş, b. 1916Cahit Karakaş, b. 1928Ercan Karakaş, b. 1945Ayşe Işıl Karakaş, b. 1958Cem Karakaş, b. 1974Kıvanç Karakaş, b. 1985İlker Karakaş, b. 1999Yunus Emre Karakaş, b. 1999

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)

FormalSayın Karakaş,Dear , (English)
InformalSayın Karakaş,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 2 countries.

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Karakaş?
A machine transcription gives /kaɾakˈaʃ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
What does the name Karakaş mean?
Recorded meaning: Gür ve kara kaşları olan kimse.
In which country does Karakaş have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 77 thousand people named Karakaş in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karakaş.
How common is the name Karakaş?
In Croatia, the national register counted 343 people named Karakaş in 2021, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
How common is Karakaş compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Karakaş is the 123rd most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Karakaş” — the 123rd most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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