Kuzey
given name · Latin script
Meaning: north (compass point)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kuz̪ej/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Kuzey is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 110K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 147K
- ISIceland1 in 351K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- 1 in 110K (inferred from the name graph)
157 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)north (compass point)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kuzey 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.
157 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)Kuzey is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. Sağını doğuya, solunu batıya veren kimsenin tam karşısına düşen yön, dört ana yönden biri, şimal, güney karşıtı. 2. Bulunduğu noktaya göre kuzeyde kalan yer.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)- Kuzey Vargınb. 1942TRTurkish actor (1942–2017)
- Kuzey Tekinoğlub. 1983TRTurkish actor (born 1983)
- Kuzey Tunçellib. 2007TRTurkish swimmer (born 2007)
- Kuzey YılmazTRTurkish academic
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 157 | #3,340 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 125 | #7,069 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 40 | #2,749 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 26 | #5,371 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 24 | #5,343 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 21 | #19,752 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2022 | 2 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 2 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kuzey?
- In Turkish /kuz̪ej/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Kuzey mean, and where does it come from?
- north (compass point) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Kuzey a male or female name?
- Kuzey is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Türkiye (TÜİK NIP, 2025), Austria (Statistik Austria, 2024) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- In which country does Kuzey have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 157 people named Kuzey, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kuzey most common?
- Kuzey is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 110 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kuzey?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 157 people named Kuzey, about 1 in 110 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kuzey?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kuzeyThe 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, “Kuzey”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.