Ocak
surname · Latin script
Meaning: stove, oven, fireplace
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/od͡ʒak/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ocak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 15K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 27K
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)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈35,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
stove, oven, fireplace
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ocak 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 | #270 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Ocak | 86 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Ocak | 4 |
| FR France | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 214K | 40 | Ocak | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 166 | 1 in 104K | 166 | Ocak | 20 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Ocak | 5 |
| BE Belgium | — | 129 | 1 in 91K | 221 | Ocak | 17 |
| DK Denmark | — | 95 | 1 in 62K | 95 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | #967 | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Ocak | 4 |
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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Ocak 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. Ateş yakmaya yarayan, pişirme, ısıtma, ısınma gibi amaçlarla kullanılan yer. 2. Ev, aile, soy.
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)
- Osman Ocakb. 1901TRTurkish statesperson (1901–1984)
- Faik Ocakb. 1906TRTurkish statesperson (1906–1962)
- Ali Kemal Ocakb. 1911TRTurkish statesperson (1911–1964)
- Kamil Ocakb. 1914TRTurkish basketball player and statesperson (1914–1969)
- Ivan Očakb. 1920HRCroatian historian (1920-1994)
- Ahmet Yaşar Ocakb. 1945TRTurkish historian (born 1945)
- F. Tulga Ocakb. 1946TRTurkish academic and professor of classical Turkish literature and Persian language (1946–2019)
- Murat Ocakb. 1982TRTurkish association football player (born 1982)
- Hande OcakTRTurkish costume designer
- Atila OcakTRTurkish botanist
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 17 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 221 | #8,071 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 166 | #12,442 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 129 | #12,554 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 95 | #5,766 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 42 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | — | — |
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 Ocak mean, and where does it come from?
- stove, oven, fireplace Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ocak?
- A machine transcription gives /od͡ʒak/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Ocak have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 35 thousand people named Ocak in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ocak.
- How common is the name Ocak?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 166 people named Ocak in 2007, about 1 in 104 thousand residents.
- How common is Ocak compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Ocak is the 270th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ocakThe 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, “Ocak” — the 270th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.