Oktaj
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Oktaj is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 8Kas Ogtay
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 23Kas Октай
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Oktaj itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 named Октай, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Октай in RU Russia, AZ Azerbaijan, Oktay in BG Bulgaria, NL Netherlands and Актай in KZ Kazakhstan.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Oktaj 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 99K | register #2,193 | Октай | 105 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 8K | 115 | Октай | 22 |
| BG Bulgaria | #642 | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Oktay | 47 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 254as Oktay | 1 in 68K | 254 | Oktay | 2 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 93K | 55 | Актай | 21 |
| DK Denmark | — | 102as Oktay | 1 in 58K | 102 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 7 | 1 in 1.5M | 106 | — | 3 |
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: Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7 | #40,629 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #12,500 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Oktaj a male or female name?
- Oktaj is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Oktaj have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Октай in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Oktaj most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Oktaj is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 1.5 million people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Oktaj?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 7 people named Oktaj, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
- How common is Oktaj compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Oktaj is the 642nd most common given name of 22,906 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Oktaj?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oktajThe 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, “Oktaj” — the 642nd most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.