Čelik
surname · Latin script
Meaning: steel (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Čelik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country: 717,655 people, counted by TÜİK NIP in 2025, which ranks it 4th.
- TRTürkiye1 in 114(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 5.1K
- BEBelgium1 in 8.4K
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 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 114 (inferred from the name graph)
717,655 people, 2025
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Celik in NL Netherlands, BE Belgium, SE Sweden and 1 more and Çelik in TR Türkiye, BG Bulgaria.
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)steel
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Čelik is found
(measured from records)Čelik 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 | — | 717,655 | 1 in 114 | 718K | Çelik | 15 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,908 | 1 in 9.1K | 1.9K | Celik | 8 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1,398 | 1 in 8.4K | 1.5K | Celik | 4 |
| DK Denmark | — | 1,142 | 1 in 5.1K | 1.1K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,033 | 1 in 9.9K | 1K | Celik | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 985 | 1 in 8.5K | 985 | Celik | 7 |
| BG Bulgaria | #553 | — | — | — | Çelik | 19 |
717,655 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used surnames, 2025. 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: TÜİK NIP — most used surnames; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Čelik 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 Serbo-Croatian, 1° domaći sinonimi: nado, blizni; sinonimi romanske posuđenice: acal, acar, ocal odlo; 2° vrsta kliša kojim se djeca igraju
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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)- Tatjana Čelikb. 1968SISlovenian entomologist
- Matevž Čelikb. 1971SISlovenian politician
- Anže ČelikSIresearcher
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Čelik mean, and where does it come from?
- steel Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Čelik?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 718 thousand people named Čelik, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled çelik. After it come Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Čelik most common?
- Čelik is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 114 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Čelik?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 717,655 people named Čelik in 2025, about 1 in 114 residents.
- How common is Čelik compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Čelik is the 553rd most common surname of 67,606 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Čelik?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%8DelikThe 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, “Čelik” — ranked 4th in Türkiye (TÜİK NIP, 2025). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.