Ümit
given name · Latin script
Meaning: hope (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Statistik Austria, 2020
/yˈmit/(recorded in a dictionary) Turkish · from Wiktionary
Ümit is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Ümit is also written Умит in Cyrillic and Ουμίτ in Greek.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 710(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 1.6Kfew records
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 8.4Kfew records
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 Ümit 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 (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 164 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 709 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Ümit in other scripts: Cyrillic and Greek
(measured from records)Locally spelled Umit in US United States, IN India, 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.
How to pronounce Ümit
- Turkish:/yˈmit/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)hope
Cited for this meaning 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #214 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 709 | register #96 | Ümit | 127 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | — | Ümit | 5 |
| DE Germany | #930 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 1 | Ümit | 89 |
| IN India | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 2 | Umit | 31 |
| CY Cyprus | #185 | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Ümit | 13 |
| TM Turkmenistan | — | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Umit | 6 |
| AT Austria | #863 | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 29 | Ümit | 24 |
| US United States | — | 320 | 1 in 1M | 277 | Umit | 146 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); 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 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)- Ümit Özdağb. 1961JPTurkish statesperson and writer (born 1961)
- Ümit Davalab. 1973TRTurkish association football player (born 1973)
- Ümit Korkmazb. 1985TRTurkish-Austrian association football player (born 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)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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
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?
- In Turkish /yˈmit/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Ümit a male or female name?
- Ümit is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- Which countries have the most people named Ümit?
- Mondonomo estimates about 121 thousand people named Ümit in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ümit. After it come Afghanistan, Germany, India and Cyprus; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%BCmitThe 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, “Ümit” — the 214th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.