Yaşar
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name which means "the one who lives"
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Stadt Leipzig Open Data, 2024
/jaʃaɾ/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Yaşar is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 33rd most common given name.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 460(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 1.8K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 3.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Yaşar itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- #907 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 457 (inferred from the name graph)
≈190,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Yasar in IN India, DE Germany, US United States 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)a male given name which means "the one who lives"
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yaşar 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 | #33 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 457 | register #94 | Yaşar | 105 |
| IN India | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 127K | 7 | Yasar | 96 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 47K | listed | Yasar | 48 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 1 | Yasar | 113 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #459 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 273 | Yaşar | 15 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 64 | Yasar | 28 |
| CY Cyprus | #79 | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Yaşar | 13 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Yaşar | 18 |
| US United States | — | 331 | 1 in 1M | 303 | Yasar | 126 |
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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; 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)Yaşar is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. Doğan çocuğun uzun ömürlü olması dileğiyle konulan bir ad.2. Yaşında.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)- Yaşar Erkanb. 1911TRTurkish wrestler (1911–1986)
- Yaşar Doğub. 1913TRTurkish wrestler (1913–1961)
- Yaşar Kemalb. 1923TRKurdish writer and human rights activist (1923–2015)
- Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcanb. 1926TRTurkish poet (1926–1984)
- Yaşar Yılmazb. 1930TRTurkish wrestler (born 1930)
- Yaşar Yakışb. 1938TRTurkish diplomat and politician (1938–2024)
- Yaşar Büyükanıtb. 1940TRTurkish general (1940–2019)
- Yaşar Nuri Öztürkb. 1951TRTurkish philosopher (1951–2016)
- Yaşar Gülerb. 1954TRMinister of National Defense of the Republic of Turkey
- Yashar Alievb. 1955AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani Ambassador to the United States 2006-2011 and Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan to the United Nations 2002—2006
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 273 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2012 | 2 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2024 | 1 | #2 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2014 | 1 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2010 | 1 | — |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 1988 | — | #94 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 1987 | — | #87 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 1986 | — | #79 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 1985 | — | #72 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 1984 | — | #73 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 1983 | — | #66 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 1982 | — | #64 |
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 Yaşar mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name which means "the one who lives" Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Yaşar?
- In Turkish /jaʃaɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Yaşar a male or female name?
- Yaşar is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- In which country does Yaşar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 187 thousand people named Yaşar in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yaşar.
- How common is the name Yaşar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 331 people named Yaşar in 2020, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
- How common is Yaşar compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Yaşar is the 33rd most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yaşar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ya%C5%9FarThe 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, “Yaşar” — the 33rd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.