Mërt

given name · Latin script

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

Mërt is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish مرد (merd, “man”), hence the given name.

  • NLNetherlands1 in 9.6K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 20K
  • SESweden1 in 23K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Netherlands (measured from records)

1,809 people

Record sources
34 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 9.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mert in NL Netherlands, US United States, DZ Algeria.

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)

From Ottoman Turkish مرد (merd, “man”), hence the given name.

Cited for this meaning 3

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Mërt 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 Mërt is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands1,8091 in 9.6K1.8KMert6
US United States7751 in 429K731Mert18
SE Sweden4531 in 23K453—1
PL Poland4401 in 87K440——
DZ Algeria≈410 est.≈1 in 113K—Mert4
DK Denmark2901 in 20K290——
FI Finland1061 in 53K193—1
MD Moldova671 in 50K67——

1,809 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); e-services.md — living population register. 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)

Mërt is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Danish given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Türkiye, Sweden, United States

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Mert, Měrt, Mërț, Mêrt

  • German given name27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Türkiye, United States, Austria

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Mert, M'Ert, Mért, 'Mert, Méŕt

  • a separate given name4 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Mert, Męrt, Mêrt

1 further group 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Mërt under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Mërt mean, and where does it come from?
From Ottoman Turkish مرد (merd, “man”), hence the given name. Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
Is Mërt a male or female name?
Mërt is a female 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 Mërt have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Mërt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mert.
Where is Mërt most common?
Mërt is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.6 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Mërt?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,809 people named Mërt, about 1 in 9.6 thousand residents.

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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, “Mërt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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