Yìlmaz
surname · Latin script
Yìlmaz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. In Austria it is the 51st most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Turkish Yılmaz, which is from yılmaz, meaning ("fearless, intrepid").
- TRTürkiye1 in 70(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.8K
- USUnited States1 in 233K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- 1 in 70 (inferred from the name graph)
1,177,896 people, 2025
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 Yilmaz in TR Türkiye, US United States, BE Belgium and 3 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 Turkish Yılmaz, which is from yılmaz, meaning ("fearless, intrepid").
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yìlmaz 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 | — | 1,177,896 | 1 in 70 | 1.2M | Yilmaz | 94 |
| NL Netherlands | #682 | 4,512 | 1 in 3.8K | 4.5K | Yilmaz | 34 |
| BE Belgium | #969 | 3,175 | 1 in 3.7K | 4.8K | Yilmaz | 26 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 2,329 | 1 in 3.6K | 2.3K | Yilmaz | 26 |
| US United States | — | 1,427 | 1 in 233K | 2.1K | Yilmaz | 180 |
| DK Denmark | — | 1,268 | 1 in 4.6K | 1.3K | — | — |
| AT Austria | #51 | — | — | 47 | Yilmaz | 72 |
1,177,896 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 Yìlmaz mean, and where does it come from?
- From Turkish Yılmaz, which is from yılmaz, meaning ("fearless, intrepid"). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Yìlmaz have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 1.2 million people named Yìlmaz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yilmaz.
- Where is Yìlmaz most common?
- Yìlmaz is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 70 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Yìlmaz?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 1,177,896 people named Yìlmaz in 2025, about 1 in 70 residents.
- How common is Yìlmaz compared with other names?
- In Austria, Yìlmaz is the 51st most common surname of 127,275 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/y%C3%AClmazThe 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, “Yìlmaz” — the 51st most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.