Seyfi
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Seyfi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 1. Kılıçla ilgili, askerliğe ait.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 6.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 17K
- ATAustria≈1 in 54K
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
- 62 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. Kılıçla ilgili, askerliğe ait. 2. Kılıç biçiminde. 3. Asker zümresi.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Seyfi 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 | #837 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Seyfi | 62 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 57K | 3 | Seyfi | 7 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 8 | — | — |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 205K | — | Seyfi | 4 |
| CY Cyprus | #729 | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Seyfi | 7 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 164K | 10 | Seyfi | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 32 | 1 in 540K | 32 | Seyfi | 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
- Seyfi Çelebib. 1600Ottoman historian (14..–1590)
- Seyfi Düzgörenb. 1880TRTurkish general and statesperson (1880–1948)
- Orhan Seyfi Orhonb. 1890TRTurkish poet and statesperson (1890–1972)
- Seyfi Arkanb. 1903TRTurkish architect (1903–1966)
- Seyfi Havaerib. 1920TRTurkish actor and director (1920–2009)
- Seyfi Tashanb. 1925TRTurkish publisher (born 1925)
- Seyfi Öztürkb. 1927TRTurkish statesperson (1927–2002)
- Seyfi Dursunoğlub. 1932TRTurkish showman (1932–2020)
- Seyfi Tatarb. 1948TRTurkish boxer (1948–2015)
- Seyfi Teomanb. 1977TRTurkish film director and producer (1977–2012)
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 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 22 | #47,734 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 10 | #70,270 |
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
- 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
- In which country does Seyfi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Seyfi in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled seyfi.
- What does the name Seyfi mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Kılıçla ilgili, askerliğe ait.
- Is Seyfi a male or female name?
- Seyfi 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.
- How common is the name Seyfi?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 32 people named Seyfi, about 1 in 540 thousand residents.
- How common is Seyfi compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Seyfi is the 837th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/seyfiThe 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, “Seyfi” — the 837th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.