Kavak

surname · Latin script

Meaning: poplar

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BEBelgium1 in 26K
  • SESweden1 in 33K

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)

≈35,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
82 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KavakLatin(measured from records)
КавакCyrillic(measured from records)

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)

poplar

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kavak 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 Kavak is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#285≈35,000 est.≈1 in 2.4K—Kavak82
BE Belgium—4541 in 26K614Kavak21
SE Sweden—3051 in 33K305Kavak19
FR France—≈300 est.≈1 in 228K58Kavak2
AZ Azerbaijan—≈250 est.≈1 in 42K—Kavak3
BG Bulgaria—≈160 est.≈1 in 43K—Kavak10

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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

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

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Türkiye, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Кавак

35 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kavak is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Serbo-Croatian, »granato drvo slično jablanu, srodno topoli i trepetljici«

    as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019201940196019802000Abdurrahman Kavak, b. 1918Mehmet Cavit Kavak, b. 1949Zehra Neşe Kavak, b. 1962Erhan Kavak, b. 1987Omar Kavak, b. 1988

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Kavak
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—614#2,411
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008454#3,390
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—305#2,932
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199158—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198118—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19717—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961——
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951——
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941——
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931——
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921——
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1911——

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

What does the name Kavak mean, and where does it come from?
poplar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Kavak?
A machine transcription gives /kavak/ (IPA) for Turkish.
In which country does Kavak have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 35 thousand people named Kavak in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kavak.
How common is the name Kavak?
In Belgium, the national register counted 454 people named Kavak in 2008, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
How common is Kavak compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Kavak is the 285th 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, “Kavak” — the 285th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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