Âkif
given name · Latin script
Âkif is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Arabic عَاكِف (ʕākif).
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 868(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.7K
- XKKosovo≈1 in 17K
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
- 124 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 868 (inferred from the name graph)
≈30,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Akif in TR Türkiye, AZ Azerbaijan, NL Netherlands and 4 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(measured from records)
From Arabic عَاكِف (ʕākif).
Sources 5
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Âkif 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 | #327 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Akif | 124 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #291 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 868 | 270 | Akif | 43 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 25K | listed | Akif | 25 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Akif | 13 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Akif | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 327 | 1 in 53K | 327 | Akif | 23 |
| GE Georgia | #849 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Akif | 12 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 80 | — | 2 |
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: Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Âkif mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic عَاكِف (ʕākif). Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and 3 other sources.
- Is Âkif a male or female name?
- Âkif 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.
- In which country does Âkif have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Âkif in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled akif.
- How common is the name Âkif?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 327 people named Âkif, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
- How common is Âkif compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Âkif is the 327th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Âkif?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A2kifThe 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, “Âkif” — the 327th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.