Pekin
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Obsolete form of Peking
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pekin is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 258Kas Пекин(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 30K
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 275K
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 Pekin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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
- 97 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,800 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, 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 Пекин in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 2 more.
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)
Obsolete form of Peking.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pekin 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 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Пекин | 49 |
| RU Russia | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 258K | — | Пекин | 97 |
| CN China | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Pekin | 1 |
| US United States | 100 | 1 in 3.3M | 100 | — | 43 |
| BR Brazil | 73 | 1 in 2.9M | 73 | — | — |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 397K | 50 | Пекин | 19 |
| BG Bulgaria | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 275K | — | Пекин | 13 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 484K | — | Пекин | 8 |
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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Pekin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Peking [Beijing]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, city, China
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, city, IL
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Azerbaijani, Beijing (a direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, Pequín, cierta tela de seda. Kotoin marratu, angeles xuria / etzaie aski [...] / pekina da sobraxa, perkala gutixe . Robin in BertsZB 185.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Sadi Pekinb. 1921TRTurkish statesperson (1921–1991)
- Mustafa Pekinb. 1925TRTurkish scientist (1925–1982)
- Sevinç Pekinb. 1946TRTurkish actor (1946–2013)
- İsmail Hakkı Pekinb. 1951TRTurkish general and statesperson (born 1951)
- Tim Pekinb. 1965Australian rules footballer
- Pamir Pekinb. 1979TRTurkish actor (born 1979)
- Büşra Pekinb. 1982TRTurkish actor (born 1982)
- Vladimir Pekinb. 1986BGBulgarian footballer
- Burak K PekinTRTurkish researcher
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 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 100 | #160,975 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 73 | #79,953 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
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 Pekin mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete form of Peking. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Pekin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Pekin in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled пекин.
- How common is the name Pekin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 100 people named Pekin in 2010, about 1 in 3.3 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pekinThe 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, “Pekin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.