Tolğay

surname · Latin script

Tolğay is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

  • CYCyprus≈1 in 16Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 92K
  • ATAustria≈1 in 310K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)

≈930 people, est.

Record sources
41 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)

Cyprus, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tolgay in TR Türkiye, CY Cyprus, US United States 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.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Tolğay 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.

Where Tolğay is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye≈930 est.≈1 in 92K—Tolgay41
CY Cyprus≈83 est.≈1 in 16K—Tolgay10
AT Austria≈30 est.≈1 in 310K7——
NL Netherlands211 in 823K21Tolgay8
US United States≈15 est.≈1 in 22MlistedTolgay26
SE Sweden61 in 1.7M6Tolgay5

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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Tolğay is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Türkiye, Austria

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Tolgay

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Tolğay under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Which countries have the most people named Tolğay?
Mondonomo estimates about 931 people named Tolğay in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tolgay. After it come Cyprus, Austria, Netherlands and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Tolğay?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 21 people named Tolğay, about 1 in 823 thousand residents.

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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, “Tolğay”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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