Şefik

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Şefkatli, acıması olan, esirgeyici

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ʃefˈɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Şefik is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 6.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SYSyria≈1 in 54K
  • DEGermany≈1 in 225K

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)

≈12,000 people, est.

Sources
67 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Sefik in BA Bosnia & Herzegovina.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Turkish

Şefkatli, acıması olan, esirgeyici.

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)

Şefik 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 Şefik is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#620≈12,000 est.≈1 in 6.8K—Şefik67
AF Afghanistan—≈1,600 est.≈1 in 23K—Şefik3
SY Syria—≈360 est.≈1 in 54K—Şefik5
DE Germany—≈360 est.≈1 in 225K—Şefik49
SI Slovenia—2241 in 9.4K224—2
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina—≈220 est.≈1 in 17K—Sefik7
MK North Macedonia#656≈180 est.≈1 in 12K—Şefik3
CY Cyprus#751≈69 est.≈1 in 18K—Şefik8

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: SURS — resident population given names. 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)

Şefik is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Bosnia & Herzegovina, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Sefik, Šefik, Sefík

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Šefik, Sefik

  • Urdu given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Languages: Urdu, Hindi

    Also written Sefik, Šefik

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye, Belgium

    Also written Sefik, Séfik

  • Slovak given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Sefik, Šefik, Šéfik

28 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Süleyman Şefik Pasha, b. 1860Şefik Aker, b. 1877Şefik Avni Özüdoğru, b. 1884Ali Şefik Özdemir, b. 1885Şefik Hüsnü, b. 1887Şefik Bakay, b. 1900Şefik Bursalı, b. 1903Şefik Fenmen, b. 1923Şefik Birkiye, b. 1954Şefik Onatoğlu, b. 1984

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)

InformalMerhaba Şefik,Hi Şefik, (English)

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 4 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 2

  • 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

How do you pronounce Şefik?
A machine transcription gives /ʃefˈɪk/ (IPA) for Turkish.
What does the name Şefik mean?
Recorded meaning: Şefkatli, acıması olan, esirgeyici.
Is Şefik a male or female name?
Şefik 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 Şefik have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Şefik in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled şefik.
How common is the name Şefik?
In Slovenia, the national register counted 224 people named Şefik in 2025, about 1 in 9.4 thousand residents.
How common is Şefik compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Şefik is the 620th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9Fefik

The 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, “Şefik” — the 620th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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