Umut
given name · Latin script
Meaning: hope (belief that something hoped for can happen), wish
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/umut/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Umut is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 732(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 1.4K
- NLNetherlands1 in 29K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 732 (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)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
hope (belief that something hoped for can happen), wish
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Umut 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 | #244 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 732 | 2.3K | Umut | 157 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Umut | 6 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | 43 | Umut | 8 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | 523 | — | — |
| FR France | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 59K | 1K | Umut | 3 |
| CY Cyprus | #148 | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Umut | 24 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 602 | 1 in 29K | 596 | Umut | 45 |
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 — newborn names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)
Umut 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, Ummaktan doğan güven duygusu, ümit.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In German, männl. Vom. türkischer Herkunft (türk, umut »hoffnungsvoll«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Umut Kurtb. 1981TRTurkish actor (born 1981)
- Umut Bulutb. 1983TRTurkish association football player (born 1983)
- Umut Kekıllıb. 1984DETurkish association football player (born 1984)
- Halil Umut Melerb. 1986TRTurkish association football referee (born 1986)
- Umut Camkiranb. 1989TRTurkish boxer (born 1989)
- Umut Nayirb. 1993TRTurkish association football player (born 1993)
- Umut Meraşb. 1995TRTurkish association football player (born 1995)
- Umut Bozokb. 1996FRTurkish association football player (born 1996)
- Umut Güneşb. 2000DETurkish association football player (born 2000)
- Umut Tohumcub. 2004TRTurkish-German association football player (born 2004)
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 48 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2018 | 3.5K | #22 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2019 | 3.3K | #21 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2020 | 2.7K | #27 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2021 | 2.7K | #25 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2022 | 2.5K | #26 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2023 | 2.3K | #26 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1K | #2,171 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 596 | #1,455 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 523 | #294 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 491 | #3,252 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 43 | — |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2017 | 29 | #501 |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
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 Umut mean, and where does it come from?
- hope (belief that something hoped for can happen), wish Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Umut?
- A machine transcription gives /umut/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Umut a male or female name?
- Umut 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.
- What are other forms of the name Umut?
- In the etymology graph, Ümit, امید and Omid are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Umut have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 112 thousand people named Umut in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled umut.
- How common is the name Umut?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 602 people named Umut, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
- How common is Umut compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Umut is the 244th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Umut?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/umutThe 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, “Umut” — the 244th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.