Ümit

given name · Latin script

Meaning: hope

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 808(inferred from the name graph)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 14K
  • FRFrance≈1 in 74K

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)

≈100,000 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
164 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 808 (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ÜmitLatin(measured from records)
УмитCyrillic(measured from records)
ΟυμίτGreek(measured from records)

Locally spelled Umit in FR France, US United States, TM Turkmenistan.

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)

hope

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ümit 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 Ümit is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#214≈100,000 est.≈1 in 808#96Ümit127
AF Afghanistan—≈6,200 est.≈1 in 5.9K—Ümit5
DE Germany#930≈5,900 est.≈1 in 14K1Ümit89
AT Austria#863≈940 est.≈1 in 9.4K29Ümit24
FR France—≈920 est.≈1 in 74K520Umit164
TM Turkmenistan—≈650 est.≈1 in 8.5K—Umit6
CY Cyprus#185≈460 est.≈1 in 2.7K—Ümit13
US United States—3201 in 1M277Umit146

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; the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ümit is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Colombia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Umit, Űmit, Ūmit

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Umit

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Italy, United States

    Also written Umit

  • Russian given name35 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kazakhstan, Russia, Türkiye, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Russian, Uzbek, Kazakh

    Also written Умит, Үміт, Umit, Уміт, Үmіt

  • Czech given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Slovakia, Czechia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Umit

  • Romanian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Romania

    Also written Umit, Ûmît

  • Persian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Iran

    Also written Umit

14 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)

Ümit is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Turkish, Umut.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

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)

19201940196019802000Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan, b. 1926Ümit Kaftancıoğlu, b. 1934Ümit Dündar, b. 1955Ümit Özdağ, b. 1961Ümit Ünal, b. 1965Ümit Ülgen, b. 1972Ümit Davala, b. 1973Ümit Özat, b. 1976Ümit Karan, b. 1976Ümit Korkmaz, b. 1985

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 Ümit,Hi Ümit, (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 24 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Ümit
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)202029#1,751
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)20083#787
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)20023#659
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)20172#1,765
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)20142#1,619
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)20132#1,537
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)20112#1,511
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)20052#1,064
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)20042#1,047
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)20201#3,586
DE GermanyStadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene20131—
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)20191#3,522

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

What does the name Ümit mean, and where does it come from?
hope Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Ümit?
In the etymology graph, Umut, Omid and Umid are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Ümit?
A machine transcription gives /ymit/ (IPA) for Turkish.
Is Ümit a male or female name?
Ümit 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.
In which country does Ümit have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 101 thousand people named Ümit in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ümit.
How common is the name Ümit?
In the United States, the national register counted 320 people named Ümit in 2020, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
How common is Ümit compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Ümit is the 214th 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, “Ümit” — the 214th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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