Mesut
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name from Arabic which means "The happy one"
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mesut/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mesut is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 770(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 12K
- SYSyria≈1 in 15K
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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 127 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 770 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
a male given name from Arabic which means "The happy one"
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mesut 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 | #171 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 770 | #86 | Mesut | 127 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 117K | — | Mesut | 6 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Mesut | 6 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 67K | 305 | — | 2 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | 30 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 5 | Mesut | 32 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 300 | 1 in 58K | 300 | Mesut | 34 |
| CY Cyprus | #520 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Mesut | 16 |
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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); 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)
Mesut is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, Mutlu, sevinçli, bahtiyar.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Swedish, Se Masoud.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Taftazanib. 1322IRnot in their usual namePersian theologian, literary and philosopher (1322-1390)
- Mesut Cemilb. 1902TRTurkish musician (1902–1963)
- Mesut Yılmazb. 1947TRPrime Minister of Turkey (1947–2020)
- Mesut Uçakanb. 1953TRTurkish film director (born 1953)
- Mesut Bakkalb. 1964TRTurkish association football player and manager (born 1964)
- Mesut Akustab. 1964TRTurkish actor (born 1964)
- Mesut Ünalb. 1973TRTurkish association football player (born 1973)
- Mesut Ceylanb. 1974TRTurkish actor (born 1974)
- Mesut Kurtisb. 1981MKTurkish-Macedonian singer and actor
- Mesut Özilb. 1988DETurkish-German 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).
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)
Attested in 44 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1995 | 305 | #1,610 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 300 | #2,237 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 278 | #4,530 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2022 | 30 | #972 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2022 | 3 | #1,141 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 1997 | — | #86 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Mesut?
- A machine transcription gives /mesut/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Mesut mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Arabic which means "The happy one" Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Mesut?
- In the etymology graph, Masud, Masood and Masoud are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Mesut a male or female name?
- Mesut 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 Mesut have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 106 thousand people named Mesut in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mesut.
- How common is the name Mesut?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 300 people named Mesut, about 1 in 58 thousand residents.
- How common is Mesut compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Mesut is the 171st most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mesut?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mesutThe 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, “Mesut” — the 171st most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.