Yekta
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Tek, eşsiz, benzersiz
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ject̪a/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yekta is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 45K
- ATAustria≈1 in 166K
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
- 63 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Tek, eşsiz, benzersiz.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yekta 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 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Yekta | 63 |
| IR Iran | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 528K | — | Yekta | 9 |
| NL Netherlands | 71 | 1 in 243K | 56 | Yekta | 4 |
| FR France | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Yekta | 1 |
| US United States | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 5.3M | listed | Yekta | 43 |
| AT Austria | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 166K | 21 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 201K | 7 | Yekta | 2 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Yekta | 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Yekta is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Kurdish, Singular, peerless, one of a kind
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
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)
- Yekta Güngör Özdenb. 1932TRTurkish judge (born 1932)
- Yekta Uzunoglub. 1953TRTurkish writer of Kurdish ancestry (born 1953)
- Yekta Saraçb. 1963TRTurkish academic (born 1963)
- Yekta Kopanb. 1968TRTurkish writer (born 1968)
- Yekta Naserb. 1978IRIranian actress
- Yekta Yılmaz Gülb. 1978TRTurkish wrestler (born 1978)
- Yekta Kurtuluşb. 1985TRTurkish association football player (born 1985)
- Yekta Altemur KaramustafaoğluTRTurkish researcher
- Yekta GöksungurTRTurkish researcher
- Yekta Said CanTRTurkish 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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 3
- 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)
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 Yekta mean?
- Recorded meaning: Tek, eşsiz, benzersiz.
- How do you pronounce Yekta?
- A machine transcription gives /ject̪a/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Yekta a male or female name?
- Yekta is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Yekta have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Yekta in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yekta.
- How common is the name Yekta?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 71 people named Yekta, about 1 in 243 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yektaThe 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, “Yekta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.