Semir

given name · Latin script

Meaning: 1. Arkadaş. 2. Nitelikli

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/semiɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Semir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SYSyria≈1 in 2.7K(inferred from the name graph)
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 23K
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 697

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.

Syria (inferred from the name graph)

≈7,300 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
45 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 697 (inferred from the name graph)

Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SemirLatin(measured from records)
সেমিরBengali(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)

recorded in Turkish

1. Arkadaş. 2. Nitelikli. 3. Yamaç, dağ silsilesi.

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)

Semir 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.

Where Semir is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SY Syria#313≈7,300 est.≈1 in 2.7K—Semir9
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#706≈5,500 est.≈1 in 697—Semir15
TR Türkiye—≈3,500 est.≈1 in 23K—Semir45
AF Afghanistan—≈1,000 est.≈1 in 36K—Semir2
US United States—6161 in 540K607Semir44
RS Serbia—≈550 est.≈1 in 13K—Semir6
SI Slovenia—5401 in 3.9K540—3
XK Kosovo—≈140 est.≈1 in 14K331—2

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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SURS — resident population given names; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Semir is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Austria, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Sèmir, Sémir, Sëmïr

  • Croatian given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Bosnian, Bulgarian

    Also written Семир, Šemir

  • Spanish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Chile, Syria

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Semír, Sémir, Sêmîr, Şemir

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Syria, Bosnia & Herzegovina

    Also written Sémir, Šèmīŕ

  • Amharic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ethiopia, Sweden, United States, Türkiye

    Also written ሰሚር

  • Russian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Russia, Türkiye, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Семир, Семір, Şemir

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Semir 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 Indonesian, smear, a fat substance, such as shoe polish and machine lubrication

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In non, second-person singular active present subjunctive of semja

    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)

1940196019802000Semir Zeki, b. 1940Semir Osmanagić, b. 1960Semir Tuce, b. 1964Semir Ben-Amor, b. 1982Semir Hadžibulić, b. 1986Semir Štilić, b. 1987Semir Kerla, b. 1987Semir Bajraktarević, b. 1987Semir Bukvić, b. 1991Semir Telalovic, b. 1999

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)

InformalMerhaba Semir,Hi Semir, (English)

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 45 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Semir
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020607#17,747
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2025540#288
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2024535#287
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—532#588
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2023514#289
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2022474#303
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2021469#302
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2020456#302
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2019380#329
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—331#1,535
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2018310#360
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2017296#368

Reference works 4

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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 Semir?
A machine transcription gives /semiɾ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
What does the name Semir mean?
Recorded meaning: 1. Arkadaş. 2. Nitelikli.
Is Semir a male or female name?
Semir 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 Semir?
In the etymology graph, Samir is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Semir have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 7.3 thousand people named Semir in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled semir.
How common is the name Semir?
In the United States, the national register counted 616 people named Semir in 2020, about 1 in 540 thousand residents.
How common is Semir compared with other names?
In Syria, Semir is the 313th most common given name of 109,151 given names recorded there.

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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, “Semir” — the 313th most common given name in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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