Başak
Fewer than three dozen women in Poland carry it, and most Poles have never met one. Turkish at root, it names an ear of wheat.
Başak Pronunciation
Başak is pronounced BAH-şahk (/ˈbaşak/).
What Başak means
Where Başak comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Başak is a Turkish woman's name, and it names a single ear of wheat. The word belongs to plain Turkish, spoken in fields and markets long before it settled onto birth certificates. In Polish the meaning lands as kłos zboża, the grain head that ripens at the top of the stalk.
Turkish astronomy took the same word for Virgo. On old star charts the constellation is drawn as a maiden holding grain, so Başak became the name of a sign as well as a plant. A girl born in early September can share her name with the harvest overhead.
The name keeps no diminutive or variant in common use. It stays short. Parents write it plain on the class register, five letters and a soft ş.
How many people are named Başak
1 in 751461 women in Poland is named Başak. 30 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7439 among female names.
Başak as a middle name
Başak is a first name for 30 women in Poland and a middle name for another 6, an 83/17 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3186th, between Bai (6) and Benedetta (6).
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#3184 Ałła6
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#3185 Bai6
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#3186 Başak6
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#3187 Benedetta6
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#3188 Bernadett6