Tetik
surname · Latin script
Meaning: vigilant, watchful
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tetˈɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tetik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- MKNorth Macedonia≈1 in 6.9K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 33K
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
- 79 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (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)
vigilant, watchful
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tetik 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 | #301 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Tetik | 79 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Tetik | 3 |
| MK North Macedonia | #899 | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Tetik | 2 |
| FR France | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 373K | 28 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 136 | 1 in 127K | 136 | Tetik | 13 |
| NO Norway | — | 94 | 1 in 58K | 94 | Tetik | 7 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Tetik | 5 |
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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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)
Tetik 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 Turkish, 1. Uyanık, açıkgözlü. 2. Çabuk davranan, çevik. 3. Becerikli. 4. Kedi, köpek vb. hayvanların pençeleri. 5. Önder, kılavuz. 6. Ateşli silahları ateşlemek için çekilen küçük manivela.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Russian, "auntie [sic]."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Hungarian, to become clear, understandable, evident, obvious
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, ablative singular of te
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)
- Güngör Tetikb. 1933TRTurkish association football player (born 1933)
- Şükrü Tetikb. 1957TRTurkish association football player (born 1957)
- Gültekin Tetikb. 1959TRTurkish photographer (born 1959)
- Anıl Tetikb. 1990TRTurkish actor (born 1990)
- Birkan Tetikb. 1995TRTurkish association football player (born 1995)
- Yusuf Engin TetikTRTurkish 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 136 | #14,716 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 94 | #16,144 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 28 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | — | — |
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
- What does the name Tetik mean, and where does it come from?
- vigilant, watchful Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tetik?
- A machine transcription gives /tetˈɪk/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Tetik have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 32 thousand people named Tetik in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tetik.
- How common is the name Tetik?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 136 people named Tetik in 2007, about 1 in 127 thousand residents.
- How common is Tetik compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Tetik is the 301st most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tetik?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tetikThe 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, “Tetik” — the 301st most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.