Yiğit
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Güçlü, yürekli, kahraman, alp
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jit̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yiğit is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 49th most common surname.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 590(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 4.9K
- ATAustria≈1 in 11K
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)
- Sources
- 124 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 590 (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
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)
1. Güçlü, yürekli, kahraman, alp. 2. Delikanlı, genç erkek. 3. Gözü pek, düşüncelerini açıkça söylemekten çekinmeyen kimse.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yiğit 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 | #49 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 590 | 2.8K | Yiğit | 117 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 508 | — | — |
| FR France | — | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 90K | 435 | Yiğit | 3 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Yiğit | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 399 | 1 in 21K | 399 | Yiğit | 18 |
| CY Cyprus | #161 | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Yiğit | 8 |
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; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the az-justice-names register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- İbrahim Süreyya Yiğitb. 1880TRTurkish statesperson (1880–1952)
- Tamer Yiğitb. 1942TRTurkish actor and screenwriter (born 1942)
- Aykut Yiğitb. 1959TRTurkish association football player (1959–2002)
- Faruk Yiğitb. 1968TRTurkish association football player (born 1966)
- Hasan Yiğitb. 1975TRTurkish association football player (born 1975)
- Nilay Kartaltepeb. 1979TRnot in their usual nameTurkish basketball player (born 1979)
- Burak Yiğitb. 1986DETurkish-German actor (born 1986)
- Feyyaz Yiğitb. 1988TRTurkish actor and screenwriter (born 1988)
- Neslihan Arınb. 1994TRnot in their usual nameTurkish badminton player (born 1994)
- Onur YiğitTRTurkish film director
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2018 | 4.4K | #10 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2019 | 3.8K | #16 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2020 | 2.9K | #23 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2022 | 2.9K | #21 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2021 | 2.8K | #23 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2025 | 2.8K | #16 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2023 | 2.5K | #24 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2024 | 2.5K | #24 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | — | — |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 2021 | — | #23 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 2020 | — | #24 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 2019 | — | #17 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Yiğit?
- A machine transcription gives /jit̪/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Yiğit mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Güçlü, yürekli, kahraman, alp.
- In which country does Yiğit have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 139 thousand people named Yiğit in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yiğit.
- How common is the name Yiğit?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 399 people named Yiğit in 2024, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
- How common is Yiğit compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Yiğit is the 49th 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/yi%C4%9FitThe 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, “Yiğit” — the 49th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.