Émre

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Émre is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 52nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Old Turkic [script needed] (amran-, “to love, desire”).

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye1 in 333(measured from records)
  • CYCyprus≈1 in 1.1K
  • ATAustria≈1 in 2.3K

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)

246,346 people, 2025

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
255 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 333 (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ÉmreLatin(measured from records)
ΕμρεGreek(measured from records)
ემრეGeorgian(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Emre in TR Türkiye, DE Germany, NL Netherlands and 4 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)

Derivation of Émre: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Émre
  1. Old Turkic[script(measured from records)
  2. Proto-Turkic*ăm-(measured from records)

From Old Turkic [script needed] (amran-, “to love, desire”). Also related to Old Turkic [script needed] (amrıl-, “to be quiet”), [script needed] (amul, “gentle, quiet”), derived from Proto-Turkic *ăm-. The verb Turkish imrenmek (“to love, desire/to feel a longing”) has been based on a same origin. Turkic Khagan Amrak is the oldest known bearer of this name. Yunus Emre, Tapduk Emre and similar Old Turkish bards/folk poets have used the "Emre" as nickname or title. Altaicists compare to Mongolian амар (amar, “rest, bliss”).

Sources 4

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Wiktionary
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Émre 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.

Where Émre is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#52246,3461 in 333246KEmre201
DE Germany#571≈17,000 est.≈1 in 4.7K—Emre171
AT Austria#329≈3,900 est.≈1 in 2.3K698Emre67
FR France—≈3,600 est.≈1 in 19K2.8KEmre3
NL Netherlands#4472,6371 in 6.6K2.6KEmre76
BE Belgium#710≈2,600 est.≈1 in 4.5K24Emre56
CY Cyprus#91≈1,200 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Emre32

246,346 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 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 given names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Émre under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Émre mean, and where does it come from?
From Old Turkic [script needed] (amran-, “to love, desire”). Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
Is Émre a male or female name?
Émre is a male 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 Émre have the most bearers?
In Türkiye, the national register counted about 246 thousand people named Émre, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled emre.
Where is Émre most common?
Émre is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 333 people carrying it.
How common is the name Émre?
In Türkiye, the national register counted 246,346 people named Émre in 2025, about 1 in 333 residents.
How common is Émre compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Émre is the 52nd most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.

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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, “Émre” — the 52nd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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