Yilmaz
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jilmaz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yilmaz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. In Austria it is the 51st most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Turkish Yılmaz, which is from yılmaz, meaning ("fearless, intrepid").
- TRTürkiye1 in 70(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.8K
- USUnited States1 in 233K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- Sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- 1 in 70 (inferred from the name graph)
1,177,896 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Turkish Yılmaz, which is from yılmaz, meaning ("fearless, intrepid").
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yilmaz 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 | — | 1,177,896 | 1 in 70 | 1.2M | Yilmaz | 94 |
| NL Netherlands | #682 | 4,512 | 1 in 3.8K | 4.5K | Yilmaz | 34 |
| BE Belgium | #969 | 3,175 | 1 in 3.7K | 4.8K | Yilmaz | 26 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 2,329 | 1 in 3.6K | 2.3K | Yilmaz | 26 |
| US United States | — | 1,427 | 1 in 233K | 2.1K | Yilmaz | 180 |
| DK Denmark | — | 1,268 | 1 in 4.6K | 1.3K | — | — |
| AT Austria | #51 | — | — | 47 | Yilmaz | 72 |
1,177,896 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Atıf Yılmazb. 1925TRnot in their usual nameTurkish film director (1925–2006)
- Mesut Yılmazb. 1947TRnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Turkey (1947–2020)
- Serra Yılmazb. 1954TRnot in their usual nameTurkish actor (born 1954)
- Cevdet Yılmazb. 1967TRnot in their usual nameVice President of Turkey
- Öztürk Yılmazb. 1969TRnot in their usual nameTurkish diplomat and statesperson (born 1969)
- Cem Yılmazb. 1973TRnot in their usual nameTurkish actor and screenwriter (born 1973)
- Burak Yılmazb. 1985TRnot in their usual nameTurkish association football player and manager (born 1985)
- Mustafa Yılmazb. 1992TRnot in their usual nameTurkish chess player (born 1992)
- Barış Alper Yılmazb. 2000TRnot in their usual nameTurkish association football player (born 2000)
- Rıdvan Yılmazb. 2001TRnot in their usual nameTurkish association football player (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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 53 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used surnames | 2025 | 1.2M | #1 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 4.8K | #104 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 4.5K | #195 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3.2K | #258 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 2.3K | #389 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #13,614 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,075 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 1.3K | #311 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 710 | #30,929 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Yilmaz mean, and where does it come from?
- From Turkish Yılmaz, which is from yılmaz, meaning ("fearless, intrepid"). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Yilmaz?
- A machine transcription gives /jilmaz/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Yilmaz have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 1.2 million people named Yilmaz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yilmaz.
- Where is Yilmaz most common?
- Yilmaz is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 70 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Yilmaz?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 1,177,896 people named Yilmaz in 2025, about 1 in 70 residents.
- How common is Yilmaz compared with other names?
- In Austria, Yilmaz is the 51st most common surname of 127,275 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yilmaz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yilmazThe 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, “Yilmaz” — the 51st most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.