Cuma
given name · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cuma is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. In Syria it is the 47th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Friday.
- SYSyria1 in 647◐
- TRTürkiye1 in 1.1K
- UAUkraine1 in 84K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈262 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 67 ●
- 1 in 230K ◐
across 4 countries
recorded for this name
568K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Chuma in TZ Tanzania, PE Peru, ZA South Africa, Чума in UA Ukraine, RU Russia and Čuma in HR Croatia.
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●
Friday
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 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 | #198 | 473,378 | 489K rec. | — | #96 | Cuma | 67 |
| SY Syria | #47 | 51,424 | 70K rec. | — | — | Cuma | 7 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 3,732 | 3.7K rec. | — | — | Чума | 13 |
| IQ Iraq | — | 992 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Cuma | 4 |
| AF Afghanistan | #105 | 925 | 954 rec. | — | — | Cuma | 4 |
| CY Cyprus | #348 | 731 | 894 rec. | — | — | Cuma | 9 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | 430 | 8 rec. | — | 1 | Chuma | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 369 | 163 rec. | — | — | Cuma | 25 |
| BE Belgium | — | 261 | 263 rec. | — | 2 | Cuma | 9 |
| RU Russia | — | 192 | 145 rec. | — | — | Чума | 46 |
| PE Peru | — | 185 | 5 rec. | — | — | Chuma | 2 |
| TM Turkmenistan | — | 139 | 194 rec. | — | — | Cuma | 3 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Turkish488K90%
- Arabic32K6%
- English4.7K1%
- German4.1K1%
- Swahili1.7K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 487,507 | 90% |
| Arabic | 31,974 | 6% |
| English | 4,685 | 1% |
| German | 4,139 | 1% |
| Swahili | 1,680 | 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●
Cuma is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. Toplanma. 2. Perşembeden sonra gelen gün.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In cau-lzg-pro, bride-groom
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Portuguese, contraction of com uma (“with a (feminine)”): feminine of cum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, shape, form; appearance, look, effect
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, reintegrationist spelling of cunha
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 |
|---|---|
| 1894 | 6 |
| 1896 | 5 |
| 1899 | 5 |
| 1902 | 5 |
| 1906 | 7 |
| 1913 | 6 |
| 1914 | 7 |
| 1915 | 12 |
| 1917 | 12 |
| 1919 | 6 |
| 1920 | 9 |
| 1922 | 7 |
| 1923 | 7 |
| 1927 | 9 |
| 1929 | 7 |
| 1930 | 5 |
| 1933 | 6 |
| 1936 | 5 |
| 1938 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 19 years between 1894–1938. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Cuma Ocaklıb. 1947TRTurkish artist (1947–2016)
- Cuma İçtenb. 1973TRTurkish statesperson (born 1973)
- Cuma Bezginb. 1990TRTurkish association football player (born 1990)
- Cuma Menizeb. 2000TRTurkish association football player (born 2000)
- Cuma MertoğluTRTurkish 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.
Reference works 5
- Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Tom II: C-D)
- 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 · 84 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Cuma?
- We estimate roughly 262 people bear Cuma (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Cuma have the most bearers?
- Cuma is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled cuma.
- How common is Cuma compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Cuma is the 198th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
- Is Cuma a male or female name?
- Cuma 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 Cuma mean?
- Recorded meaning: Friday
Query this name via API
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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, “Cuma” — the 198th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.