Mehmed
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Turkish: a male given name from Arabic, a variant of Mehmet: Muhammad (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: SURS, 2025
/mehmed/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Mehmed is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 3.7K(measured from records)
- XKKosovo≈1 in 3.7K
- HRCroatia1 in 12K
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)
- Record sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 807 (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Mehmed
- Turkish:/mehmed/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a male given name from Arabic, variant of Muhammad
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mehmed is read
(measured from records)Mehmed is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Turkish46%
- Bulgarian21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mehmed in Bulgarian.
- Arabic8.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mehmed in Arabic.
- English6.4%
A male given name from Turkish, variant of Muhammad.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Serbo-Croatian5.8%
a male given name from Arabic, variant of Muhammad
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mehmed 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 | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Mehmed | 61 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 807 | 25 | Mehmed | 9 |
| SY Syria | #926 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Mehmed | 7 |
| AF Afghanistan | #709 | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Mehmed | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 571 | 1 in 3.7K | 571 | — | 1 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 375 | — | 3 |
| HR Croatia | — | 364 | 1 in 12K | 364 | — | — |
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: SURS — resident population given names; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); the ba-fzs-newborn-names 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Al-Battanib. 858TRnot in their usual nameIslamic astronomer and mathematician (died 929)
- Al-Birunib. 973AFnot in their usual name11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
- Idris I of Libyab. 1889LYnot in their usual nameKing of Libya from 1951 to 1969
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)50 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Mehmed?
- In the etymology graph, Mehmet, Muhammad and Mohammad are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Where does the name Mehmed come from?
- a male given name from Arabic, variant of Muhammad Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mehmed?
- In Turkish /mehmed/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Mehmed a male or female name?
- Mehmed is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Slovenia (SURS, 2025), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Kosovo (ASK Kosovo) and Norway (SSB), among others.
- What does the name Mehmed mean?
- In Turkish, a male given name from Arabic, a variant of Mehmet: Muhammad
- Which countries have the most people named Mehmed?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.5 thousand people named Mehmed in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mehmed. After it come Bosnia & Herzegovina, Syria, Afghanistan and Slovenia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Mehmed?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 571 people named Mehmed in 2025, about 1 in 3.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Mehmed compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Mehmed is the 709th most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mehmedThe 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, “Mehmed” — the 709th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.