Nakas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Kilmė neaiški“ . Gali būti išsirutuliojusi iš krikšto vardo lenk
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nəkəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nakas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 119K(inferred from the name graph)
- RWRwanda≈1 in 30K
- LTLithuania≈1 in 51K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 66 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈690 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Rwanda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nakaş in TR Türkiye and Νακας in GR Greece.
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)
Kilmė neaiški“ . Gali būti išsirutuliojusi iš krikšto vardo lenk. Enoch, brus. Енох (M. Бирыла, 1966, c. 73)
Sources 1
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nakas 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 | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | Nakaş | 15 |
| RW Rwanda | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Nakas | 1 |
| GR Greece | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 122K | 3 | Νακας | 33 |
| US United States | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 5M | listed | Nakas | 66 |
| LT Lithuania | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Nakas | 14 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 218K | — | Nakas | 5 |
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 2 | — | 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Nakas 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 naz, ear.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Vladislovas Nakasb. 1888LVLatvian organist
- Antanas Nakasb. 1904LTLithuanian organist
- Ričardas Nakasb. 1916LTLithuanian naval officer (1916-1963)
- Kęstutis Nakasb. 1952USAmerican academic
- Šarūnas Nakasb. 1962LTLithuanian musician
- Audrius Nakasb. 1967LTLithuanian politician and actor
- George Nakasb. 1970SEactor
- Nikolaos Nakasb. 1982DEGerman footballer
- Christos T. NakasGRresearcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #364,944 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #370,444 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Nakas?
- A machine transcription gives /nəkəz/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Nakas mean?
- Recorded meaning: Kilmė neaiški“ . Gali būti išsirutuliojusi iš krikšto vardo lenk.
- In which country does Nakas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 690 people named Nakas in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nakaş.
- How common is the name Nakas?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4 people named Nakas in 2026, about 1 in 9.6 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nakasThe 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, “Nakas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.