Bekir
given name · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bekir is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is the 48th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sabahları erken kalkmayı alışkanlık edinen kimse.
- TRTürkiye1 in 433◐
- SYSyria1 in 4.9K
- BEBelgium1 in 15K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.4K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 100 ●
- 1 in 8.8K ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
1.3M records
Official registry-verified
North Macedonia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Бекир in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 1 more and በክር in ET Ethiopia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Sabahları erken kalkmayı alışkanlık edinen kimse.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #48 | 1,249,392 | 1.2M rec. | — | #99 | Bekir | 97 |
| SY Syria | #569 | 6,806 | 16K rec. | — | — | Bekir | 5 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1,044 | 1.1K rec. | — | 273 | Bekir | 22 |
| CY Cyprus | #274 | 913 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Bekir | 13 |
| RU Russia | — | 750 | 100 rec. | — | #1,542 | Бекир | 34 |
| IQ Iraq | — | 636 | 890 rec. | — | — | Bekir | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 610 | 430 rec. | — | — | Bekir | 34 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 373 | 1.4K rec. | 1 in 46K | 373 | Bekir | 22 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 243 | 227 rec. | — | 21 | Bekir | 10 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 241 | 300 rec. | 1 in 8.8K | 318 | — | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | 231 | 181 rec. | 1 in 44K | 231 | Bekir | 18 |
| US United States | — | 200 | 608 rec. | 1 in 1.7M | 200 | Bekir | 100 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Turkish1.3M96%
- German13K1%
- French6.1K1%
- Bulgarian4.5K1%
- English4.1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 1,253,160 | 96% |
| German | 12,525 | 1% |
| French | 6,105 | 1% |
| Bulgarian | 4,466 | 1% |
| English | 4,121 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Bekir is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In xgn-pro, sterlet
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In xgn-pro, стерлядь
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 117 |
| 2000 | 117 |
| 2001 | 119 |
| 2002 | 122 |
| 2003 | 130 |
| 2004 | 136 |
| 2005 | 139 |
| 2006 | 142 |
| 2007 | 151 |
| 2008 | 152 |
| 2009 | 151 |
| 2010 | 152 |
| 2011 | 162 |
| 2012 | 171 |
| 2013 | 167 |
| 2014 | 166 |
| 2015 | 171 |
| 2016 | 173 |
| 2017 | 174 |
| 2018 | 175 |
| 2019 | 177 |
| 2020 | 180 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Bekir Sami Kunduhb. 1865TRTurkish statesperson (1865–1933)
- Refik Koraltanb. 1889TRnot in their usual nameTurkish statesperson (1889–1974)
- Bekir Çoban-zadeb. 1893UACrimean Tatar intellectual (1893–1937)
- Bekir Refet Tekerb. 1899TRTurkish association football player (1899–1977)
- Bekir Sıdkı Sezginb. 1936TRTurkish composer (1936–1996)
- Baker Abdel Munemb. 1942PSnot in their usual namePalestinian diplomat (1942–2023)
- Bakr Abu Zaydb. 1944SAnot in their usual nameSaudi Arabian cleric
- Bekir Bozdağb. 1965TRTurkish politician
- Bekir Aslantaşb. 1968TRTurkish actor (born 1968)
- Bekir İrtegünb. 1984TRTurkish association football player (born 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 46 sources across 29 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 207 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Bekir?
- We estimate roughly 1.4 thousand people bear Bekir (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Bekir have the most bearers?
- Bekir is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled bekir.
- How common is Bekir compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Bekir is the 48th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
- Is Bekir a male or female name?
- Bekir 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.
- What does the name Bekir mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sabahları erken kalkmayı alışkanlık edinen kimse.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Bekir” — the 48th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.