Yavuz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: stern, tough
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/javuz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yavuz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common surname.
- TRTürkiye1 in 347(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 2.6K
- ATAustria≈1 in 7.1K
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 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- 1 in 347 (inferred from the name graph)
236,317 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
stern, tough
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(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 | — | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | — | 3 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 164 | — | — |
| FR France | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 60K | 380 | Yavuz | 4 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 29K | listed | Yavuz | 4 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 50 | Yavuz | 9 |
| CY Cyprus | #113 | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Yavuz | 17 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)
- Hilmi Yavuzb. 1936TRTurkish writer (born 1936)
- Hakan Yavuzb. 1960TRTurkish basketball coach (born 1960)
- Yüksel Yavuzb. 1964TRTurkish-German film director of Kurdish ancestry (born 1964)
- Seddar Yavuzb. 1967TRTurkish statesperson (born 1967)
- Ali İhsan Yavuzb. 1969TRTurkish statesperson (born 1969)
- Erdinç Yavuzb. 1978TRTurkish association football player (born 1978)
- İbrahim Yavuzb. 1982TRTurkish association football player (born 1982)
- Mahmut Yavuzb. 1982TRTurkish long-distance runner (born 1982)
- Mustafa Yavuzb. 1994ATTurkish-Austrian association football player (born 1994)
- 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)
Attested in 52 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used surnames | 2025 | 236K | #23 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used surnames | 2024 | 235K | #23 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used surnames | 2023 | 234K | #23 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used surnames | 2022 | 233K | #23 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used surnames | 2021 | 232K | #24 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 163 | — |
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 Yavuz mean, and where does it come from?
- stern, tough Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Yavuz?
- A machine transcription gives /javuz/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Yavuz have the most bearers?
- 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.
- 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.
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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” — the 25th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.