Haydar
given name · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Aslan. 2. Cesur, yiğit kimse
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hajd̪aɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Haydar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 3.4K
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 8.8K
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
- 95 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈50,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. Aslan. 2. Cesur, yiğit kimse. 3. Hz.Ali’nin lakabı.
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)
Haydar 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 | #169 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | #79 | Haydar | 95 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Haydar | 13 |
| AF Afghanistan | #403 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Haydar | 4 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Haydar | 56 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Haydar | 9 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 30 | — | — |
| TM Turkmenistan | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | — | Haydar | 10 |
| SE Sweden | — | 415 | 1 in 25K | 415 | — | 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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)
Haydar 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 Arabic, lion; strength
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
León
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Nigârib. 1494TRnot in their usual nameTurkish painter, poet and naval captain (1494–1572)
- Haydar Aşanb. 1906TRTurkish sprinter (1906–1996)
- Ali Haydar Saltıkb. 1923TRTurkish general and statesperson (1923–2011)
- Haydar Zaferb. 1927TRTurkish wrestler (1927–1994)
- Haydar Başb. 1947TRTurkish statesperson (1947–2020)
- Haydar Berkb. 1954TRTurkish diplomat (born 1954)
- Haydar Ergülenb. 1956TRTurkish poet (born 1956)
- Haydar Zorlub. 1967TRTurkish-German actor (born 1967)
- Ali Haydar Hakverdib. 1979TRTurkish statesperson (born 1979)
- Haydar Yılmazb. 1984TRTurkish association football player (born 1984)
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)
Attested in 56 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 415 | #3,161 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 238 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 30 | #1,820 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 1 | #2,520 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 1960 | — | #79 |
Reference works 7
- 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
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- 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 Haydar?
- A machine transcription gives /hajd̪aɾ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Haydar mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Aslan. 2. Cesur, yiğit kimse.
- Is Haydar a male or female name?
- Haydar 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 Haydar?
- In the etymology graph, Hayder and Heydar are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Haydar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 50 thousand people named Haydar in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled haydar.
- How common is the name Haydar?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 415 people named Haydar, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Haydar compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Haydar is the 169th 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/haydarThe 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, “Haydar” — the 169th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.