Celik
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/ʒelic/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Celik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Turkish Çelik.
- TRTürkiye1 in 114(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 998
- BEBelgium1 in 8.4K
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 (measured from records)
- #530 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 205 (measured from records)
- 1 in 114 (inferred from the name graph)
717,655 people, 2025
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Çelik in TR Türkiye, BE Belgium, CY Cyprus and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Turkish Çelik.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Celik 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 | #6 | 717,655 | 1 in 114 | 718K | Çelik | 153 |
| FR France | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 765 | Çelik | 3 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Çelik | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | #296 | 1,908 | 1 in 9.1K | 1.9K | Celik | 64 |
| BE Belgium | #349 | 1,398 | 1 in 8.4K | 1.5K | Çelik | 44 |
| CY Cyprus | #15 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 998 | — | Çelik | 15 |
| DK Denmark | — | 1,142 | 1 in 5.1K | 1.1K | — | — |
717,655 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used surnames, 2025. 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: TÜİK NIP — most used surnames; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); 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)Celik 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 Albanian, sheepshead minnow (Cyprinodon fasciatus), a type of pupfish
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, open (of eye, not covered)
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Zeynel Çelikb. 1953TRTurkish karateka (born 1953)
- Devrim Çelikb. 1980TRTurkish academic
- Kerstin Celikb. 1983ATAustrian association football player
- Burcu Çelik Özkanb. 1986TRTurkish statesperson (born 1986)
- Mervan Çelikb. 1990TRTurkish association football player (born 1990)
- Esra Celikb. 1990TRTurkish association football player (born 1990)
- Susanne Celikb. 1994SESwedish tennis player
- Tarik Celikb. 1996USAmerican professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player and Valorant
- Melissa CelikTRTurkish association football player
- Meyem CelikTRTurkish association football coach
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)34 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 1.5K | #753 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1.4K | #842 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 1.1K | #340 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 765 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 439 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 196 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 166 | #12,409 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
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 Celik mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Turkish Çelik. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Celik?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒelic/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Celik have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 718 thousand people named Celik, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled çelik.
- Where is Celik most common?
- Celik is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 114 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Celik?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 717,655 people named Celik in 2025, about 1 in 114 residents.
- How common is Celik compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Celik is the 6th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Celik?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/celikThe 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, “Celik” — the 6th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.