Yilmaz

surname · Latin script

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

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

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Yilmaz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country: 1,177,896 people, counted by TÜİK NIP in 2025, which ranks it first. 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)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 3.6K
  • BEBelgium1 in 3.7K

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)

1,177,896 people, 2025

Record sources
180 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 70 (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Yilmaz

  • Turkish:/jilmaz/(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)

From Turkish Yılmaz, which is from yılmaz, meaning ("fearless, intrepid").

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Yilmaz is found

(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.

Where Yilmaz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye—1,177,8961 in 701.2MYilmaz94
NL Netherlands#6824,5121 in 3.8K4.5KYilmaz34
BE Belgium#9693,1751 in 3.7K4.8KYilmaz26
CH Switzerland—2,3291 in 3.6K2.3KYilmaz26
US United States—1,4271 in 233K2.1KYilmaz180
DK Denmark—1,2681 in 4.6K1.3K——
AT Austria#51——47Yilmaz72

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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Yilmaz is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish surname13 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Turkish, Turkmen, Azerbaijani

    Also written Yílmaz, Yìlmaz, Yïlmâz, Yilmäz, Yìlmâž

  • French surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Türkiye, Netherlands

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Ÿïlmäż, Yîlmaz, Yïlmäz, Ýilmàź

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Yílmaz

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Yílmaz, Yįlmaz, Yïlmaz

55 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)
1940196019802000Mesut Yılmaz, b. 1947Burak Yılmaz, b. 1985Barış Alper Yılmaz, b. 2000
  • Mesut Yılmazb. 1947TRnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Turkey (1947–2020)
  • Burak Yılmazb. 1985TRnot in their usual nameTurkish association football player and manager (born 1985)
  • Barış Alper Yılmazb. 2000TRnot in their usual nameTurkish association football player (born 2000)

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 Yilmaz Bey,Dear Yilmaz Bey, (English)
InformalMerhaba Yilmaz,Hi Yilmaz, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

53 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 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?
In Turkish /jilmaz/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Yilmaz?
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. After it come Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
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.

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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, “Yilmaz” — ranked first in Türkiye (TÜİK NIP, 2025). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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