Peker
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Peker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant of Pech.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 53K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 18K
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
- 121 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈32,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Pech
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Peker 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 | #298 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Peker | 98 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Peker | 89 |
| CN China | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Peker | 3 |
| FR France | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 198K | 52 | Peker | 2 |
| AR Argentina | — | 293 | 1 in 155K | 293 | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Peker | 14 |
| DK Denmark | — | 121 | 1 in 49K | 121 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Peker | 7 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)
Peker is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Nynorsk, present of peka
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, present of peke
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)
- Recep Pekerb. 1889TRTurkish military officer and statesperson (1889–1950)
- Orhan Pekerb. 1927TRTurkish artist (1927–1978)
- Hüseyin Pekerb. 1946TRTurkish poet (born 1946)
- Faruk Pekerb. 1956TRTurkish actor and screenwriter (born 1956)
- Zafer Pekerb. 1959TRTurkish singer (born 1959)
- Hakan Pekerb. 1961TRTurkish singer (born 1961)
- Henning Pekerb. 1966DEGerman actor
- Sedat Pekerb. 1971TRTurkish mafia boss
- Luciana Pekerb. 1973ARArgentine journalist
- Kaya Pekerb. 1980TRTurkish basketball player (born 1980)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 293 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 121 | #4,526 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 52 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 3 | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
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 Peker mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Pech Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Peker have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 32 thousand people named Peker in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peker.
- How common is the name Peker?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 293 people named Peker, about 1 in 155 thousand residents.
- How common is Peker compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Peker is the 298th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pekerThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Peker” — the 298th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.