Kadir
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kadir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 38th most common given name. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Arabic which means "powerful", "mighty".
- TRTürkiye1 in 425(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 1.9K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 6.2K
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 Kadir 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 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- 1 in 425 (inferred from the name graph)
193,025 people, 2025
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye
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)
a male given name from Arabic which means "powerful", "mighty"
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kadir 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 | #38 | 193,025 | 1 in 425 | 193K | Kadir | 153 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Kadir | 4 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 970 | Kadir | 2 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Kadir | 8 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | 244 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | #786 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | 28 | Kadir | 38 |
| CY Cyprus | #122 | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Kadir | 20 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 483as Кадир | 1 in 4.4K | 483 | — | 7 |
193,025 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 2025. 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: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); State Statistical Office — living population names; 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)
Kadir 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 Turkish, 1. Kuvvetli, güçlü, kudret sahibi. 2. Değer, onur, kıymet, şeref.3. Allah’ın adlarındandır.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Arabic, powerful, able
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
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)
- Qodir Zokirovb. 1906UZnot in their usual nameUzbekistani scientist (1906-1992)
- Kadir Savunb. 1926TRTurkish actor (1926–1995)
- Kadir Nurmanb. 1933TRTurkish-German restaurateur (1933–2013)
- Kadir Mısıroğlub. 1933TRTurkish conspiracy theorist (1933–2019)
- Kadir Topbaşb. 1945TR5th Mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan City (1945–2021)
- Cenk Uygurb. 1970USnot in their usual nameTurkish-American online news show host (born 1970)
- Kadir Nelsonb. 1974USAmerican children's illustrator and writer
- Kadir Cermikb. 1977TRTurkish actor (born 1977)
- Kadir Doğulub. 1982TRTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1982)
- Hakan Baltab. 1983TRnot in their usual nameTurkish association football player (born 1983)
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 76 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 28 | #38,337 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 27 | — |
Reference works 8
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- 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
- What does the name Kadir mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Arabic which means "powerful", "mighty" Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Kadir a male or female name?
- Kadir 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 Kadir?
- In the etymology graph, Qādir is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kadir have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 193 thousand people named Kadir, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kadir.
- Where is Kadir most common?
- Kadir is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 425 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kadir?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 193,025 people named Kadir in 2025, about 1 in 425 residents.
- How common is Kadir compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Kadir is the 38th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kadir?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kadirThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kadir” — the 38th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.