Sakir
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sakir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 18K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 8.5K
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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 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 Şakir in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, AZ Azerbaijan 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sakir 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 | #263 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Şakir | 62 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Sakir | 31 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Şakir | 4 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #811 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | 115 | Şakir | 10 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Şakir | 6 |
| CY Cyprus | #536 | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Şakir | 8 |
| DK Denmark | — | 25 | 1 in 235K | 42 | — | — |
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; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sakir is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Faroese, indefinite nominative/accusative plural of sak
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, indefinite nominative plural of sök
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, on account of, for the sake of
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mrw, soccer
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)
- Mehmet Şakir Paşab. 1855TROttoman statesman
- Somek Shakir Seltsukb. 1918CYnot in their usual nameCypriot politician
- Şakir Bozkurtb. 1989TRTurkish wrestler (born 1989)
- Sakir Khaderb. 1990NLDutch-Palestinian photo journalist
- Sakir Kaplanb. 1990LILiechtensteiner association football player
- Sakir Akınb. 2000TRresearcher
- Sakir ColakFRFrench politician
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 31 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #75,939 |
Reference works 5
- 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)
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
- Is Sakir a male or female name?
- Sakir 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 Sakir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named Sakir in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled şakir.
- How common is the name Sakir?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 25 people named Sakir, about 1 in 235 thousand residents.
- How common is Sakir compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Sakir is the 263rd most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sakir?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sakirThe 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, “Sakir” — the 263rd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.