Yavuz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: stern, tough (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: TÜİK NIP, 2025
/javuz/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Yavuz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country: 236,317 people, counted by TÜİK NIP in 2025, which ranks it 23rd.
- TRTürkiye1 in 347(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 1.5Kfew records
- ATAustria≈1 in 11K
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.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- 1 in 347 (inferred from the name graph)
236,317 people, 2025
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Yavuz
- Turkish:/javuz/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)stern, tough
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Yavuz is found
(measured from records)Yavuz 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 | #25 | 236,317 | 1 in 347 | 236K | Yavuz | 147 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 18K | listed | — | 3 |
| CY Cyprus | #113 | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Yavuz | 17 |
| FR France | — | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 81K | 380 | Yavuz | 4 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 164 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 486 | 1 in 17K | 486 | Yavuz | 30 |
| MD Moldova | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 4 | — | 6 |
236,317 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used surnames, 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 surnames; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Yavuz is also recorded in 4 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. İyi, güzel. 2. Mert, cesur. 3. Becerikli, hamarat. 4. Yumuşak huylu.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In German, männl. Vom. türkischer Herkunft (türk, yavuz »der Gestrenge«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In crh, vicious, savage, cruel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In otk, bad, evil, violent, etc.
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
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)- Yüksel Yavuzb. 1964TRTurkish-German film director of Kurdish ancestry (born 1964)
- Ali İhsan Yavuzb. 1969TRTurkish statesperson (born 1969)
- Fatma Nur Yavuzb. 1997TRTurkish badminton player (born 1997)
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)Evidence
(measured from records)52 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Yavuz mean, and where does it come from?
- stern, tough Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Yavuz?
- In Turkish /javuz/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Yavuz?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 236 thousand people named Yavuz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yavuz. After it come Germany, Cyprus, France and Austria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Yavuz most common?
- Yavuz is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 347 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Yavuz?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 236,317 people named Yavuz in 2025, about 1 in 347 residents.
- How common is Yavuz compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Yavuz is the 25th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yavuz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yavuzThe 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, “Yavuz” — ranked 23rd in Türkiye (TÜİK NIP, 2025). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.