Yüksel
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Yüksel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: "Yükseklere çık, yücel, başarı kazan, ilerle" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 746(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 2.9K
- USUnited States1 in 2.2M
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
- 164 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 746 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Yuksel in US United States, FR France.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
"Yükseklere çık, yücel, başarı kazan, ilerle" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yüksel 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 | #114 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 746 | #36 | Yüksel | 123 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 14 | — | — |
| FR France | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 110K | 223 | Yuksel | 4 |
| CY Cyprus | #144 | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Yüksel | 17 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 944 | Yüksel | 27 |
| US United States | — | 152 | 1 in 2.2M | 355 | Yuksel | 164 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 81K | 359 | Yüksel | 15 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
- Osman Yüksel Serdengeçtib. 1917TRTurkish journalist and statesperson (1917–1983)
- Yüksel Koptagelb. 1931TRTurkish composer and pianist (born 1931)
- Yüksel Söylemezb. 1931TRTurkish diplomat (1931–2013)
- Yüksel Gündüzb. 1937TRTurkish association football player (1937–2023)
- Yüksel Gözenb. 1938TRTurkish actor (1938–1991)
- Şule Yüksel Şenlerb. 1938TRTurkish writer (1938–2019)
- Yüksel Pazarkayab. 1940TRTurkish-German translator (born 1940)
- Yüksel Yavuzb. 1964TRTurkish-German film director of Kurdish ancestry (born 1964)
- Yüksel Yolcub. 1966TRTurkish theatre director
- Yüksel Yeşilovab. 1968TRTurkish association football coach (born 1968)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2023 | 14 | #1,753 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2013 | 6 | #1,703 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2007 | 2 | #1,115 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2023 | 1 | #3,454 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2013 | 1 | #3,416 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 1970 | — | #36 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 1960 | — | #80 |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- 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 Yüksel mean?
- Recorded meaning: "Yükseklere çık, yücel, başarı kazan, ilerle" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.
- Is Yüksel a male or female name?
- Yüksel is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Yüksel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 110 thousand people named Yüksel in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yüksel.
- How common is the name Yüksel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 152 people named Yüksel in 2020, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
- How common is Yüksel compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Yüksel is the 114th most common given name of 264,080 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, “Yüksel” — the 114th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.