Murat
given name · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from any of various places named Murat, in Allier, Cantal, Correze, Puy-de-D6me, and Tam
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/muɾat/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Murat is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 21st most common given name.
- TRTürkiye1 in 155(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 615
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 826
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 Murat 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 (measured from records)
- #459 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 285 (measured from records)
- 1 in 155 (inferred from the name graph)
527,648 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)
Locally spelled Мурат in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, UZ Uzbekistan.
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)
habitational name from any of various places named Murat, in Allier, Cantal, Correze, Puy-de-D6me, and Tam.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Murat 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 | #21 | 527,648 | 1 in 155 | 528K | Murat | 221 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #64 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 526 | 21K | Мурат | 64 |
| RU Russia | #221 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | #117 | Мурат | 159 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #699 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | listed | Мурат | 23 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #123 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 826 | — | Murat | 12 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 636 | 2.7K | — | 4 |
| CY Cyprus | #42 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 615 | — | Murat | 33 |
527,648 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; 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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)
Murat is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, aim, intention
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, 1. İstek, dilek, arzu. 2. Amaç.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In French, de (Le) Murat, nom de plusieurs localités surtout dans le sud de la France.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In Swedish, Murat är en turkisk form av det arabiska Murad (Mourad) som betyder ’önskan; vilja’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In English, Joachim, French militarist
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper 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)
- Murad Ib. 1326TRnot in their usual namethird Ottoman sultan (1362–1389)
- Murad IIb. 1403TRnot in their usual namesixth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1421–1444, 1446–1451)
- Murad IIIb. 1546TRnot in their usual name12th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1574–1595)
- Murad IVb. 1612TRnot in their usual namethe 17th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1623–1640)
- Murad Vb. 1840TRnot in their usual name33th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876)
- René Auberjonoisb. 1940USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1940–2019)
- Murat Zyazikovb. 1957RURussian politician
- Murat Yakınb. 1974CHSwiss association football player and coach
- Mehmet Okurb. 1979TRnot in their usual nameTurkish basketball player (born 1979)
- Murat Bozb. 1980TRTurkish singer (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 86 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used given names | 2025 | 528K | #7 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 2.7K | #252 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2025 | 3 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 2 | #252 |
Reference works 11
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Murat mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of various places named Murat, in Allier, Cantal, Correze, Puy-de-D6me, and Tam. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Murat?
- A machine transcription gives /muɾat/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Murat have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 528 thousand people named Murat, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled murat.
- Where is Murat most common?
- Murat is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 155 people carrying it.
- Is Murat a male or female name?
- Murat 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 Murat?
- In the etymology graph, Murad, Mourad and Marat are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Murat?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 527,648 people named Murat in 2025, about 1 in 155 residents.
- How common is Murat compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Murat is the 21st most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/muratThe 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, “Murat” — the 21st most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.