Yildiz

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 28 countries · latest register: TÜİK NIP, 2025

/jildiz/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated

Say it inExplore pronunciation →

Yildiz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country: 697,080 people, counted by TÜİK NIP in 2025, which ranks it 5th. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Turkish Yıldız.

  • TRTürkiye1 in 118(measured from records)
  • ATAustria≈1 in 3.2K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 4.1K

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)

697,080 people, 2025

Record sources
155 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 118 (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)Make your nomograph ✦

How to pronounce Yildiz

  • Turkish:/jildiz/(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)
Derivation of Yildiz: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Yildiz
  1. TurkishYıldız(measured from records)
  2. Ottoman Turkishیلدزyıldız(inferred from the name graph)via Yıldız
  3. Proto-Turkic*yulduŕ“star”(inferred from the name graph)via Yıldız

Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.

Borrowed from Turkish Yıldız.

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Yildiz is found

(measured from records)

Yildiz 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 Yildiz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#986697,0801 in 118697KYildiz118
FR France—≈4,200 est.≈1 in 16K839—2
AF Afghanistan—≈3,000 est.≈1 in 14K—Yildiz3
AT Austria—≈2,800 est.≈1 in 3.2K16——
NL Netherlands#3182,7111 in 6.4K2.7KYildiz62
CH Switzerland#8642,0321 in 4.1K2KYildiz43
NO Norway—1,0261 in 5.3K1KYildiz26
CY Cyprus#561≈280 est.≈1 in 4.9K—Yildiz10

697,080 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • English surname2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Ÿįldįz

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Argentina, Netherlands

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Yildíz, Yildîz, Yîldįz, Yïldïz, Yîldîz

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Yįldįz, Yíldíz

48 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1960198020002020Melda Yıldız, b. 1969Dilşat Yıldız, b. 1996Salih Yıldız, b. 2001
  • Melda Yıldızb. 1969TRnot in their usual nameTurkish college professor (born 1969)
  • Dilşat Yıldızb. 1996TRnot in their usual nameTurkish curler (born 1996)
  • Salih Yıldızb. 2001TRnot in their usual nameTurkish judoka (born 2001)

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 Yildiz Hanım,Dear Yildiz Hanım, (English)
InformalMerhaba Yildiz,Hi Yildiz, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

58 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 28 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Yildiz mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Turkish Yıldız. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Yildiz?
In Turkish /jildiz/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Yildiz?
In Türkiye, the national register counted about 697 thousand people named Yildiz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yildiz. After it come France, Afghanistan, Austria and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Yildiz most common?
Yildiz is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 118 people carrying it.
How common is the name Yildiz?
In Türkiye, the national register counted 697,080 people named Yildiz in 2025, about 1 in 118 residents.
How common is Yildiz compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Yildiz is the 986th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.

What do you want to know about Yildiz?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yildiz

The 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, “Yildiz” — ranked 5th in Türkiye (TÜİK NIP, 2025). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

See how Yildiz parses inside a full name →