Recep

given name · Turkish · Latin script

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

Recep is a given name, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 28th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Kurdish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Rajab, the seventh month of the lunar and Islamic calendar.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye1 in 455◐
  • SYSyria1 in 5.6K
  • BEBelgium1 in 13K

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

≈181K ●

across 7 countries

Sources
125 ●

1.6M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 455 ◐

Türkiye

Meaning & origin●

Rajab, the seventh month of the lunar and Islamic calendar.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Recep is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#28180,2771.6M rec.1 in 455180KRecep125
SY Syria#6665,9079.5K rec.——Recep6
BE Belgium—1,1541.2K rec.——Recep24
GB United Kingdom—1,032761 rec.——Recep51
CY Cyprus#305834984 rec.——Recep13
MK North Macedonia#784424694 rec.——Recep5
CH Switzerland—355320 rec.——Recep18
RO Romania—328306 rec.——Recep15
NL Netherlands—2751.3K rec.1 in 63K275Recep41
US United States—1991.2K rec.1 in 1.7M199Recep102
AF Afghanistan#791197406 rec.——Recep3
PL Poland—155△1 rec.1 in 247K155—1

Roughly 180K people in Türkiye bear this name (about 1 in 455). 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●

  • Turkish1.6M86%
  • Kurdish191K10%
  • German17K1%
  • Bulgarian9.5K1%
  • English5.7K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish1,568,48086%
Kurdish191,23510%
German17,1691%
Bulgarian9,4621%
English5,6561%

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◐

Recep is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name27K records spelled Recep10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Türkiye, Austria, Netherlands

    Languages: German, English, Western Frisian

    Also written Reçep, R'Ecep, Récép

  • Bulgarian given name11K records spelled Recep22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Türkiye, Kosovo, Poland

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Polish

    Also written Redžep, Реджеп, Redzhep, Redzep, Реџеп

  • French given name5.7K records spelled Recep5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye, Belgium, Syria

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Récep, Récép, Rečep

  • Spanish given name3.4K records spelled Recep6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Syria, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written R'Ecep, Récép

  • Greek given name1.0K records spelled Recep2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, Türkiye

    Also written Reçep

  • Russian given name870 records spelled Recep15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Реджеп, Redzhep, Redjep, Rexhep, Рэджэп

  • a separate given name848 records spelled Recep2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States

    Also written Reçep

32 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●

Recep 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 Turkish, 1. Gösterişli, heybetli. 2. Arabi ayların yedincisi ve kutsal sayılan üç aylardan birincisi.

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

  • In Catalan, inflection of recebre:

    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●

02550751002000200520102015202099 · 2019

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Recep in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199955
200057
200159
200260
200360
200462
200563
200664
200764
200865
200969
201071
201179
201283
201388
201487
201582
201681
201787
201897
201999
202099

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●

1850190019502000Rexhep Mitrovica, b. 1888Recep Peker, b. 1889Recep Küpçü, b. 1934Recep Tayyip Erdogan, b. 1954Recep Akdağ, b. 1960Recep Çetin, b. 1965Recep Cinisli, b. 1967Recep Uçar, b. 1975Recep Biler, b. 1981Onur Kıvrak, b. 1988
  • Rexhep Mitrovicab. 1888ALnot in their usual nameAlbanian politician and Axis collaborator (1888-1967)
  • Recep Pekerb. 1889TRTurkish military officer and statesperson (1889–1950)
  • Recep Küpçüb. 1934BGTurkish-Bulgarian poet (1934–1976)
  • Recep Tayyip Erdoganb. 1954TRPresident of Turkey since 2014
  • Recep Akdağb. 1960TRTurkish physician and statesperson (born 1960)
  • Recep Çetinb. 1965TRTurkish association football player (born 1965)
  • Recep Cinislib. 1967TRactor
  • Recep Uçarb. 1975TRTurkish association football player and manager (born 1975)
  • Recep Bilerb. 1981TRTurkish association football player (born 1981)
  • Onur Kıvrakb. 1988TRnot in their usual nameTurkish association football player (born 1988)

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 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Recep
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
TR TürkiyeTÜİK NIP — most used given names2025180K#26
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—275#2,368
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—258#3,945
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020199#38,064
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026155#1,541
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—139#1,554
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—138#6,871
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—130#1,206
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202099—
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)202488#819
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—73#3,633
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—64#6,757

Reference works 3

  • 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 · 175 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Recep?
We estimate roughly 181 thousand people bear Recep (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Recep have the most bearers?
We estimate about 180 thousand people bear Recep in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled recep.
Where is Recep most common?
Recep is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 455 people carrying it.
How common is Recep compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Recep is the 28th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
Is Recep a male or female name?
Recep 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 Recep mean?
Recorded meaning: Rajab, the seventh month of the lunar and Islamic calendar.
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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, “Recep” — the 28th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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