Keklik

surname · Latin script

Meaning: partridge

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 4.6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CYCyprus≈1 in 42K
  • NONorway1 in 171K

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)

≈18,000 people, est.

Sources
59 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

partridge

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Keklik 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 Keklik is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#498≈18,000 est.≈1 in 4.6K—Keklik59
US United States—≈110 est.≈1 in 3MlistedKeklik37
FR France—≈77 est.≈1 in 878K—Keklik2
NL Netherlands—571 in 303K57Keklik8
BE Belgium—481 in 244K48Keklik4
CH Switzerland—471 in 179K47Keklik7
NO Norway—321 in 171K32—2
CY Cyprus—≈30 est.≈1 in 42K—Keklik4

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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Keklik is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye, Belgium

    Also written Kéklik

  • Bulgarian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Türkiye, Netherlands

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian

    Also written Кеклик

36 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)

Keklik 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 Turkish, 1. Güvercin büyüklüğünde, eti için avlanan, tüyü boz, ayakları ve gagası kırmızı renkte, beğenilen bir kuş 2. Alımlı, güzel kadın.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

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)

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 Keklik,Dear , (English)
InformalSayın Keklik,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Keklik
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200757#28,544
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200848#26,888
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202447#19,565
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—32#33,573
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 Keklik mean, and where does it come from?
partridge Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Keklik?
A machine transcription gives /cecʎic/ (IPA) for Turkish.
In which country does Keklik have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Keklik in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled keklik.
How common is the name Keklik?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 57 people named Keklik in 2007, about 1 in 303 thousand residents.
How common is Keklik compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Keklik is the 498th 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, “Keklik” — the 498th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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