Semir
given name · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Arkadaş. 2. Nitelikli (TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary))
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- Slovenia (SURS, 2025): listed as male
- Kosovo (ASK Kosovo): listed as male
- Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries · latest register: SURS, 2025
/semiɾ/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Semir is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bosnia & Herzegovina than in any other country. Semir is also written সেমির in Bengali.
- SISlovenia1 in 3.9K(measured from records)
- SYSyria≈1 in 6.1K
- ATAustria≈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.
- Bosnia & Herzegovina (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 618 (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Semir in other scripts: Bengali
(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.
How to pronounce Semir
- Turkish:/semiɾ/(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)1. Arkadaş. 2. Nitelikli. 3. Yamaç, dağ silsilesi.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Semir 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #706 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 618 | — | Semir | 15 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Semir | 45 |
| SY Syria | #313 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Semir | 9 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Semir | 2 |
| US United States | — | 616 | 1 in 540K | 607 | Semir | 44 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 80 | — | — |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Semir | 6 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 540 | 1 in 3.9K | 540 | — | 3 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SURS — resident population given names; 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)Semir 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 Indonesian, smear, a fat substance, such as shoe polish and machine lubrication
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, second-person singular active present subjunctive of semja
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Semir Zekib. 1940GBneuroscientist
- Semir Osmanagićb. 1960BABosnian author & entrepreneur (1960-)
- Semir Štilićb. 1987BABosnian footballer
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)45 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Semir?
- In the etymology graph, Samir is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Semir?
- In Turkish /semiɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Semir a male or female name?
- Semir is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; Slovenia (SURS, 2025): listed as male; Kosovo (ASK Kosovo): listed as male; Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- What does the name Semir mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Arkadaş. 2. Nitelikli.
- Which countries have the most people named Semir?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.1 thousand people named Semir in Bosnia & Herzegovina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled semir. After it come Türkiye, Syria, Afghanistan and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Semir?
- In the United States, the national register counted 616 people named Semir in 2020, about 1 in 540 thousand residents.
- How common is Semir compared with other names?
- In Bosnia & Herzegovina, Semir is the 706th most common given name of 4,559 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Semir?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/semirThe 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, “Semir” — the 706th most common given name in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.