Karateke

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

/kaɾatece/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated

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

  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 934K
  • DKDenmark1 in 1.5M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)

≈7,300 people, est.

Record sources
47 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Karateke is found

(measured from records)

Karateke 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 Karateke is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye≈7,300 est.≈1 in 12K—Karateke47
CY Cyprus≈27 est.≈1 in 51K—Karateke4
NL Netherlands91 in 1.9M9Karateke4
CH Switzerland91 in 934K9Karateke2
SE Sweden61 in 1.7M6Karateke4
DK Denmark41 in 1.5M4——

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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Karateke is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Bulgarian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Türkiye

    Also written Каратеке

27 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)

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 Karateke,Dear , (English)
InformalSayın Karateke,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Karateke?
In Turkish /kaɾatece/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Karateke?
Mondonomo estimates about 7.3 thousand people named Karateke in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karateke. After it come Cyprus, Netherlands, Switzerland and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Karateke?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 9 people named Karateke in 2007, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.

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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, “Karateke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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