Keskin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: sharp
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/keskin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Keskin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 35th most common surname.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 456(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 25K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 3.9K
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)
- Sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 456 (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
sharp
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Keskin 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #35 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 456 | — | Keskin | 134 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 53K | 205 | Keskin | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 687 | 1 in 25K | 687 | Keskin | 49 |
| BE Belgium | — | 364 | 1 in 32K | 600 | Keskin | 24 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 329 | 1 in 26K | 329 | Keskin | 15 |
| CY Cyprus | #192 | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Keskin | 10 |
| DK Denmark | — | 264 | 1 in 22K | 264 | — | — |
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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Keskin 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. Etkili, sert. 2. Görevini iyi yapan. 3. Azgın.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Latvian, pilsēta Turcijā ("Keskin"), Kirikales ilā, 9900 iedzīvotāju (2013. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Erol Keskinb. 1927TRTurkish association football player (1927–2016)
- Erol Keskinb. 1931TRTurkish actor and screenwriter (born 1931)
- Suna Keskinb. 1940TRTurkish actor (born 1940)
- Hakkı Keskinb. 1943TRTurkish-German statesperson (born 1943)
- Eren Keskinb. 1959TRTurkish social reformer (born 1959)
- Birhan Keskinb. 1963TRTurkish poet (born 1963)
- Gökhan Keskinb. 1966TRTurkish association football player (born 1966)
- Serkan Keskinb. 1977TRTurkish actor and director (born 1977)
- Larab. 1979TRnot in their usual nameTurkish singer (born 1979)
- Mustafa Samican Keskinb. 1993TRTurkish association football player (born 1993)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 687 | #2,652 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 600 | #2,478 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 364 | #4,395 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 329 | #4,004 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 264 | #1,823 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 205 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 111 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 70 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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
- What does the name Keskin mean, and where does it come from?
- sharp Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Keskin?
- A machine transcription gives /keskin/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Keskin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 180 thousand people named Keskin in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled keskin.
- How common is the name Keskin?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 687 people named Keskin in 2007, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Keskin compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Keskin is the 35th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Keskin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/keskinThe 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, “Keskin” — the 35th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.