Izmir
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Izmir (a province and metropolitan municipality in western Anatolia in Turkey, along the Mediterranean coast)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Izmir is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uzbekistan than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 417K(inferred from the name graph)
- ALAlbania1 in 7.2K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 23K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Izmir itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Uzbekistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈600 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Измир in KZ Kazakhstan, AZ Azerbaijan.
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)
Izmir (a province and metropolitan municipality in western Anatolia in Turkey, along the Mediterranean coast)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Izmir 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Izmir | 2 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | Измир | 3 |
| AL Albania | 426 | 1 in 7.2K | 426 | — | — |
| TR Türkiye | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 417K | — | Izmir | 40 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 380K | 222 | Измир | 16 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 47K | 62 | — | — |
| MK North Macedonia | 29as Измир | 1 in 73K | 29 | — | — |
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: INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); State Statistical Office — living population names; the az-justice-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)
- Izmir Smajlajb. 1993ALAlbanian male long jumper
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 19 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 426 | #1,063 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 62 | #3,905 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1993 | 4 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1966 | 4 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2017 | 3 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1995 | 3 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1989 | 3 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2018 | 2 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1997 | 2 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1996 | 2 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1990 | 2 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1985 | 2 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Izmir mean, and where does it come from?
- Izmir (a province and metropolitan municipality in western Anatolia in Turkey, along the Mediterranean coast) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Izmir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 597 people named Izmir in Uzbekistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled izmir.
- Where is Izmir most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Izmir is densest in Albania — about 1 in 7.2 thousand people — even though Uzbekistan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Izmir?
- In Albania, the national register counted 426 people named Izmir, about 1 in 7.2 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Izmir?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/izmirThe 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, “Izmir”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.