Yeşil

surname · Latin script

Meaning: green

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/jeʃil/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Yeşil is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 73K
  • FRFrance≈1 in 186K

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)

≈46,000 people, est.

Sources
108 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Yesil in DE Germany, FR France, SE Sweden and 2 more.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

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Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Yeşil 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 Yeşil is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#214≈46,000 est.≈1 in 1.8K—Yeşil81
DE Germany—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 73K—Yesil84
FR France—≈360 est.≈1 in 186K70Yesil108
SE Sweden—1921 in 53K192Yesil17
AT Austria—≈130 est.≈1 in 69K—Yesil16
NO Norway—981 in 56K98Yesil7
CY Cyprus—≈72 est.≈1 in 18K—Yeşil7

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Yeşil is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Peru, Sweden

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Yesil, Satılmış, Satılmıs

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Yesil

  • Bulgarian surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Türkiye

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian

    Also written Yesil

  • Indonesian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Yesil, Satılmış

  • Slovak surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Satılmış, Yesil

  • Italian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Yesil, Satılmış

31 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Yeşil 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. San ile mavinin karışımından oluşan, çoğu bitki yapraklarında görülen renk. 2. Genç, taze.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

  • In Turkish, 1. Sarı ile mavinin karışmasından oluşan, çoğu bitki yapraklarında görülen renk. 2. Genç, taze.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary, per-gender-row harvest)

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)

1900195020002050Cemal Yeşil, b. 1900Sinan Yeşil, b. 1972Sermet Yeşil, b. 1977Alperen Yeşil, b. 1984Samed Yeşil, b. 1994Mehmet Yeşil, b. 1998Gülçin Yeşil, b. 1998Ayşin Yeşil, b. 1999Hakan Yeşil, b. 2002

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)

FormalSayın Yeşil,Dear , (English)
InformalSayın Yeşil,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.

Reference works 4

  • 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)

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 Yeşil mean, and where does it come from?
green Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Yeşil?
A machine transcription gives /jeʃil/ (IPA) for Turkish.
In which country does Yeşil have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Yeşil in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yeşil.
How common is the name Yeşil?
In Sweden, the national register counted 192 people named Yeşil, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
How common is Yeşil compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Yeşil is the 214th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Yeşil” — the 214th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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