Ferhat
given name · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Güçlüğü yenip bir yeri ele geçiren
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fɛrhˈat/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ferhat is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 813(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 7.8K
- NLNetherlands1 in 35K
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)
- Sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 813 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. Güçlüğü yenip bir yeri ele geçiren. 2. Sevinç, neşe.3. Ferhat ile Şirin efsanesindeki erkek kahramanın adı.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ferhat 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 | #210 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 813 | #95 | Ferhat | 128 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | listed | Ferhat | 14 |
| CN China | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 388K | — | Ferhat | 5 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Ferhat | 8 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 735 | Ferhat | 4 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | 76 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 492 | 1 in 35K | 492 | Ferhat | 43 |
| CY Cyprus | #448 | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Ferhat | 18 |
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: the tr-tuik-child-stats register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Ferhat is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Se Farhad.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Ferhad Paşab. 1530ALnot in their usual nameOttoman grand vizier (1530–1595)
- Ferhat Abbasb. 1899DZAlgerian politician (1899-1985), President of Provisional Government of Algeria, president of the National Constitutional Assembly of Algeria
- Ferhat Mehennib. 1951DZKabyle politician
- Ferhat Akbaşb. 1986TRTurkish volleyball player and coach (born 1986)
- Ferhat Öztorunb. 1987TRTurkish association football player (born 1987)
- Ferhat Bıkmazb. 1988DETurkish association football player (born 1988)
- Ferhat Görgülüb. 1991NLTurkish association football player (born 1991)
- Ferhat Arıcanb. 1993TRTurkish gymnast (born 1993)
- Ferhad Ayazb. 1994TRnot in their usual nameTurkish association football player (born 1994)
- Ferhat UzundağTRTurkish cinematographer
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 49 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2019 | 735 | #2,533 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 492 | #1,653 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 456 | #3,399 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2023 | 76 | #1,753 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2023 | 1 | #2,325 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 2008 | — | #95 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 are other forms of the name Ferhat?
- In the etymology graph, Farhad, Fərhad and Farhata are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ferhat?
- A machine transcription gives /fɛrhˈat/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Ferhat a male or female name?
- Ferhat is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Ferhat mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Güçlüğü yenip bir yeri ele geçiren.
- In which country does Ferhat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 101 thousand people named Ferhat in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ferhat.
- How common is the name Ferhat?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 492 people named Ferhat, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
- How common is Ferhat compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Ferhat is the 210th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ferhat?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ferhatThe 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, “Ferhat” — the 210th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.