Filiz
given name · Latin script
Meaning: sprout, bud
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: Statistik Austria, 2024
/fiˈliz/(recorded in a dictionary) Turkish · from Wiktionary
Filiz is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 92nd most common given name.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 480(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 1.7K
- ATAustria≈1 in 8.1K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 481 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 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
Spellings & scripts
(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)sprout, bud
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Filiz 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 | #92 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 481 | register #97 | Filiz | 116 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 57K | 700 | — | 3 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | 59 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 53 | Filiz | 31 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 63 | Filiz | 7 |
| CY Cyprus | #86 | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Filiz | 14 |
| US United States | — | 403 | 1 in 825K | 403 | Filiz | 136 |
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-bloothooft-migrants-2022 register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; 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)Filiz is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. Tohumdan veya tomurcuktan çıkan körpe sürgün. 2. İnce uzun, zayıf, narin kız.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In mzs, happy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, »mladica, ogranak; sinonim: lăstar (v.)«
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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)- Filiz Alib. 1937TRTurkish musicologist (born 1937)
- Filiz Akınb. 1943TRTurkish actor (1943–2025)
- Filiz Koçalib. 1955TRTurkish statesperson (born 1955)
- Filiz Taçbaşb. 1964TRTurkish actor (born 1964)
- Filiz Demirelb. 1964DEGerman politician
- Filiz Polatb. 1978DEGerman politician of Turkish descent
- Filiz Ahmetb. 1981MKTurkish actress
- Filiz Koçb. 1986TRTurkish actor and association football player (born 1986)
- Hazal Filiz Küçükköseb. 1988TRTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1988)
- İpek Filiz Yazıcıb. 2001TRTurkish actor (born 2001)
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)42 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2010 | 700 | #2,731 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 403 | #24,063 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 63 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 59 | #1,868 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2020 | 6 | #1,204 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1965 | 5 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 1 | #2,480 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 1996 | — | #97 |
| TR Türkiye | Bloothooft (2022) — Given names in three generations of Turkish migrants | — | — | #13 |
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 Filiz mean, and where does it come from?
- sprout, bud Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Filiz?
- In the etymology graph, Phyllis, PhyLiss and Phillis are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Filiz?
- In Turkish /fiˈliz/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Filiz a male or female name?
- Filiz is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2010), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Netherlands (Meertens NVB) and Norway (SSB), among others.
- In which country does Filiz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 170 thousand people named Filiz in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled filiz.
- How common is the name Filiz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 403 people named Filiz in 2020, about 1 in 825 thousand residents.
- How common is Filiz compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Filiz is the 92nd most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Filiz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/filizThe 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, “Filiz” — the 92nd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.