Yildirim
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ildiʁim/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yildirim is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Turkish Yıldırım.
- TRTürkiye1 in 123(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 3.8K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 995as Yıldırım
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 Yildirim 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)
- #560 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 127 (measured from records)
- 1 in 123 (inferred from the name graph)
666,723 people, 2025
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Yıldırım in TR Türkiye, DE Germany, CY Cyprus and 3 more.
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)
- TurkishYıldırım(measured from records)
- Ottoman Turkishیلدرمyıldırım“thunderbolt”(inferred from the name graph)via Yıldırım
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Borrowed from Turkish Yıldırım.
Sources 1
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yildirim 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 | #8 | 666,723 | 1 in 123 | 667K | Yıldırım | 127 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Yıldırım | 24 |
| FR France | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 734 | Yıldırım | 3 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 2 | Yıldırım | 10 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Yıldırım | 8 |
| CY Cyprus | #20 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 995 | — | Yıldırım | 14 |
666,723 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used surnames, 2025, counting the spelling yildirim. 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 noms de famille (1891–2000); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kesire Yıldırımb. 1951TRTurkish statesperson (born 1951)
- Aziz Yıldırımb. 1952TRTurkish businessperson and civil engineer (born 1952) (born 1952)
- Sezen Aksub. 1954TRnot in their usual nameTurkish singer-songwriter and record producer (born 1954)
- Binali Yıldırımb. 1955TRPrime Minister of Turkey (born 1955)
- Cem Yıldırımb. 1961TRTurkish mathematician (born 1961)
- Murat Yıldırımb. 1979TRTurkish actor (born 1979)
- Özgür Yıldırımb. 1979DETurkish-German film director (born 1979)
- Sercan Yıldırımb. 1990TRTurkish association football player (born 1990)
- Rukiye Yıldırımb. 1991TRTurkish taekwondo athlete (born 1991)
- Bertuğ Yıldırımb. 2002TRTurkish association football player (born 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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used surnames | 2025 | 667K | #7 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used surnames | 2024 | 664K | #7 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used surnames | 2023 | 662K | #7 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used surnames | 2022 | 659K | #7 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used surnames | 2021 | 654K | #7 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used surnames | 2020 | 649K | #7 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used surnames | 2019 | 644K | #7 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used surnames | 2018 | 637K | #7 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 734 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 455 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Yildirim mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Turkish Yıldırım. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Yildirim?
- A machine transcription gives /ildiʁim/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Yildirim have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 667 thousand people named Yildirim, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yıldırım.
- Where is Yildirim most common?
- Yildirim is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 123 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Yildirim?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 666,723 people named Yildirim in 2025, about 1 in 123 residents.
- How common is Yildirim compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Yildirim is the 8th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yildirim?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yildirimThe 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, “Yildirim” — the 8th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.