Yâvuz
surname · Latin script
Yâvuz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Proto-Turkic *yabïŕ.
- TRTürkiye1 in 347(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 2.6K
- ATAustria≈1 in 7.1K
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 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- 1 in 347 (inferred from the name graph)
236,317 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Yavuz in TR Türkiye, CY Cyprus, FR France and 2 more.
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)
From Proto-Turkic *yabïŕ.
Sources 4
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yâvuz 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 | #25 | 236,317 | 1 in 347 | 236K | Yavuz | 147 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | — | 3 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 164 | — | — |
| FR France | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 60K | 380 | Yavuz | 4 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 29K | listed | Yavuz | 4 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 50 | Yavuz | 9 |
| CY Cyprus | #113 | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Yavuz | 17 |
236,317 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used surnames, 2025. 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 — most used surnames; 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Yâvuz mean, and where does it come from?
- From Proto-Turkic *yabïŕ. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Yâvuz have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 236 thousand people named Yâvuz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yavuz.
- Where is Yâvuz most common?
- Yâvuz is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 347 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Yâvuz?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 236,317 people named Yâvuz in 2025, about 1 in 347 residents.
- How common is Yâvuz compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Yâvuz is the 25th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/y%C3%A2vuzThe 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, “Yâvuz” — the 25th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.