Ismet
given name · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Masumluk, günahsızlık, temizlik
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/is̪met̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ismet is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 71st most common given name.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 796(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 1.6K
- XKKosovo≈1 in 342
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 Ismet itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 342 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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. Masumluk, günahsızlık, temizlik. 2. Haramdan çekinme, namus.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ismet 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 | #71 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 796 | #60 | Ismet | 108 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 342 | 6.6K | — | 6 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Ismet | 3 |
| MK North Macedonia | #182 | 1,568as Исмет | 1 in 1.4K | 1.5K | Ismet | 5 |
| AL Albania | — | 1,337 | 1 in 2.3K | 1.3K | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | #58 | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Ismet | 22 |
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; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); State Statistical Office — living population names; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ismet 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 Swedish, Ismet är en turkisk form av det arabiska namnet Ismat som betyder ’ren, syndfri’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Arabic, President of Turkey (1938-
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)
- Ismet Muftićb. 1876BACroatian Muslim mufti (1876–1945)
- İsmet İnönüb. 1884TR2nd President of the Republic of Turkey (1884–1973)
- İsmet Kürb. 1916TRTurkish writer (1916–2013)
- İsmet Sezginb. 1928TRTurkish statesperson (1928–2016)
- İsmet Atlıb. 1931TRTurkish wrestler (1931–2014)
- Ismet Rizvićb. 1933BABosnian artist
- Ismat Gayibovb. 1942AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani politician (1942-1991)
- İsmet Özelb. 1944TRTurkish poet and writer (born 1944)
- İsmet Yılmazb. 1961TRTurkish statesperson (born 1961)
- İsmet Sazb. 1980TRTurkish chef and restaurateur (born 1980)
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 54 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 6.6K | #25 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 1.3K | #363 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 15 | #25 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2025 | 7 | — |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 1970 | — | #60 |
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
- How do you pronounce Ismet?
- A machine transcription gives /is̪met̪/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Ismet mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Masumluk, günahsızlık, temizlik.
- Is Ismet a male or female name?
- Ismet 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 Ismet?
- In the etymology graph, 'Ismat is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ismet have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 103 thousand people named Ismet in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ismet.
- How common is the name Ismet?
- In Albania, the national register counted 1,337 people named Ismet, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Ismet compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Ismet is the 71st most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ismet?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ismetThe 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, “Ismet” — the 71st most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.