Sancak
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Alay bayrağı
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sandʒak/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sancak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 5.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 7.3K
- RSSerbia≈1 in 38K
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
- 73 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Alay bayrağı.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sancak 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.
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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- İsmail Sancakb. 1954TRTurkish statesperson (born 1954)
- Ethem Sancakb. 1958TRTurkish businessperson (born 1958)
- Kadri Sancakb. 1966TRTurkish association football player (born 1966)
- Murat Sancakb. 1968TRTurkish businessperson (born 1968)
- İsmail Sancakb. 1973TRTurkish film director (born 1973)
- Yasin Sancakb. 1978TRTurkish volleyball player (born 1978)
- Gizem Sancakb. 1990TRTurkish volleyball player (born 1990)
- Nurşah Sancakb. 1997TRTurkish handball player (born 1997)
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 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 77 | #18,967 |
Reference works 4
- 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)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Sancak?
- A machine transcription gives /sandʒak/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Sancak mean?
- Recorded meaning: Alay bayrağı.
- In which country does Sancak have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Sancak in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sancak.
- How common is the name Sancak?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 77 people named Sancak in 2008, about 1 in 152 thousand residents.
- How common is Sancak compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Sancak is the 648th 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/sancakThe 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, “Sancak” — the 648th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.