Mehmet
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name from Arabic, form of Muhammad
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mehmet/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mehmet is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common given name.
- TRTürkiye1 in 64(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 106
- ATAustria≈1 in 1.2K
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)
- #54 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 312 (measured from records)
- 1 in 64 (inferred from the name graph)
1,271,896 people, 2025
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye
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)
a male given name from Arabic, form of Muhammad
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mehmet 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 | #2 | 1,271,896 | 1 in 64 | 1.3M | Mehmet | 238 |
| DE Germany | #204 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Mehmet | 194 |
| AF Afghanistan | #179 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Mehmet | 12 |
| CY Cyprus | #2 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 106 | — | Mehmet | 54 |
| FR France | #695 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | 3.7K | Mehmet | 250 |
| AT Austria | #103 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 1.1K | Mehmet | 65 |
| AL Albania | — | 2,058 | 1 in 1.5K | 2.1K | — | 1 |
| XK Kosovo | #531 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 967 | 4.9K | Mehmet | 7 |
1,271,896 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 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 given names; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); 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)
Mehmet is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, bk. Muhammet
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Swedish, Mehmet är en turkisk form av → Mohammad.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, männl. Vom., türkische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In English, A male given name from Turkish, variant of Muhammad.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Mehmed Ib. 1386TRnot in their usual namefifth Ottoman Sultan (1413–1421)
- Mehmed IIb. 1432TRnot in their usual nameseventh Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1444–1446, 1451–1481)
- Mehmed IIIb. 1566TRnot in their usual name13th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1595–1603)
- Mehmed IVb. 1642TRnot in their usual name19th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1648–1687)
- Mehmed Vb. 1844TRnot in their usual name35th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1909–1918)
- Mehmed VIb. 1861TRnot in their usual name36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1918–1922)
- Mehmed Talatb. 1874BGnot in their usual nameTurkish Ottoman politician (1874–1921)
- Mehmet Ali Ağcab. 1958TRTurkish contract killer (born 1958)
- Mehmet Özb. 1960USTurkish-American surgeon, TV host, and government official (born 1960)
- Mehmet Schollb. 1970DEGerman association football player and manager
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 73 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used given names | 2025 | 1.3M | #1 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 4.9K | #73 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 3.7K | #902 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2025 | 2.1K | #29 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 2.1K | #189 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 1.1K | #252 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 23 | #256 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 2 | #73 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2025 | 1 | — |
Reference works 6
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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 Mehmet mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Arabic, form of Muhammad Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mehmet?
- A machine transcription gives /mehmet/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Mehmet a male or female name?
- Mehmet 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 Mehmet?
- In the etymology graph, Muhammad, Mohammad and Mohammed are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Mehmet have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 1.3 million people named Mehmet, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mehmet.
- Where is Mehmet most common?
- Mehmet is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 64 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mehmet?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 1,271,896 people named Mehmet in 2025, about 1 in 64 residents.
- How common is Mehmet compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Mehmet is the 2nd most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mehmet?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mehmetThe 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, “Mehmet” — the 2nd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.