Dilek

given name · Turkish · Latin script

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

Dilek is a given name, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 58th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Kurdish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Heartfelt desire, wish, aspiration and hope.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye1 in 434◐
  • CYCyprus1 in 1.7K
  • BEBelgium1 in 12K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈190K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
109 ●

1.0M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 434 ◐

Türkiye

Meaning & origin●

Heartfelt desire, wish, aspiration and hope

Sources 1

  • kurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Dilek is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#58188,7901M rec.1 in 434189KDilek103
CY Cyprus#1601,3761.8K rec.——Dilek15
BE Belgium—1,3101.4K rec.—67Dilek27
GB United Kingdom—674384 rec.——Dilek48
NL Netherlands—5251.8K rec.1 in 33K525Dilek36
CH Switzerland—489469 rec.—27Dilek17
US United States—4261K rec.1 in 781K426Dilek109
DK Denmark—225—1 in 26K225——
SE Sweden—223200 rec.1 in 46K223Dilek16
SY Syria—110114 rec.——Dilek3
CA Canada—102102 rec.——Dilek11
TH Thailand—4120 rec.——Dilek14

Roughly 189K people in Türkiye bear this name (about 1 in 434). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Turkish933K80%
  • Kurdish190K16%
  • German20K2%
  • French8.7K1%
  • English5.3K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish932,70080%
Kurdish189,61316%
German19,8302%
French8,7121%
English5,3361%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Dilek is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name33K records spelled Dilek7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Türkiye, Netherlands, Austria

    Languages: German, English, Western Frisian

    Also written 'Dilek

  • French given name11K records spelled Dilek5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye, Belgium, United States

    Also written D'Ilek, Dïlek, Dìlek

  • Bulgarian given name1.2K records spelled Dilek9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian

    Also written Дилек

43 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.

Other recorded senses●

Dilek is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Turkish, Dilenen, istenen şey.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

  • In German, weibl. Vom. türkischer Herkunft (türk. dilek »Wunsch«).

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Maltese, to smear

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In mdh, spear

    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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Dilek in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
1999111
2000116
2001121
2002123
2003124
2004125
2005131
2006135
2007142
2008143
2009154
2010158
2011166
2012166
2013169
2014174
2015178
2016179
2017186
2018189
2019190
2020192

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●

1940196019802000Dilek Pakalın, b. 1955Dilek Sabancı, b. 1964Dilek Kolat, b. 1967Dilek İmamoğlu, b. 1974Dilek Gürsoy, b. 1976Dilek Çelebi, b. 1980Dilek Serbest, b. 1981Dilek Öcalan, b. 1987

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 40 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Dilek
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
TR TürkiyeTÜİK NIP — most used given names2025189K#18
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2006640#2,387
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—525#1,949
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020426#23,042
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—226#4,379
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—225#952
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—223#4,836
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020192—
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200798#19,262
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200867#21,083
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—61#3,954
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199159—

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 · 162 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dilek?
We estimate roughly 190 thousand people bear Dilek (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Dilek have the most bearers?
We estimate about 189 thousand people bear Dilek in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled dilek.
Where is Dilek most common?
Dilek is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 434 people carrying it.
How common is Dilek compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Dilek is the 58th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
Is Dilek a male or female name?
Dilek is a female 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 Dilek mean?
Recorded meaning: Heartfelt desire, wish, aspiration and hope
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Dilek” — the 58th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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