Simay
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Gümmüş gibi parlak güzel
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Simay is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 8.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 7.7K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 70K
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
- 62 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Gümmüş gibi parlak güzel.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Simay 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 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | #98 | Simay | 62 |
| DE Germany | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 228K | 1 | Simay | 33 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Simay | 11 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Simay | 4 |
| AT Austria | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 99K | 85 | Simay | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | 84 | 1 in 206K | 84 | Simay | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Simay | 4 |
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: the tr-tuik-child-stats register; the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Simay 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.
Lisboa
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
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)
- Simay Karamanb. 1991TRTurkish basketball player (born 1991)
- Simay Barlasb. 1999TRTurkish actor (born 1999)
- Simay Özçiftçib. 2003TRTurkish athlete (born 2003)
- Simay ArgentoAUactress
- Simay ÖzkanTRTurkish association football player
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(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 17 countries.
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Simay mean?
- Recorded meaning: Gümmüş gibi parlak güzel.
- Is Simay a male or female name?
- Simay 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.
- In which country does Simay have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.7 thousand people named Simay in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled simay.
- How common is the name Simay?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 84 people named Simay, about 1 in 206 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Simay?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/simayThe 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, “Simay”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.