Mehmet
Mehmet is a boy's name that peaked in 2015, when it was the 2,809th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 5,045th. About 820 Mehmets are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Mehmet
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 837
- Estimated living today
- 820
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2015
- Best rank
- 2,809th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,045th
- First recorded
- 1960
How old the living Mehmets are
born that year still alive today
Of the 837 babies given the name since 1960, about 820 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Turkish
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Mehmets
- Mehmet Ali Ağca (born 1958)Turkish contract killer
- Mehmet Scholl (born 1970)German association football player and manager
- Mehmet Topal (born 1986)Turkish association football player
- Mehmet Âkif Ersoy (1873–1936)Turkish poet and writer
- Mehmet Shehu (1913–1981)Prime Minister of Albania
- Mehmet Okur (born 1979)Turkish basketball player
- Mehmet Ali Talat (born 1952)President of Northern Cyprus from 2005 to 2010
- Mehmet Öz (born 1960)Turkish-American surgeon, TV host, and government official
People named Mehmet with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Mehmet is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Mehmet is most concentrated in New York (8.5×), New Jersey (5.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2015
The most popular boys’ names the year Mehmet peaked:
Mehmet elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Mehmet | 3,775 | 444th |
| England and Wales boys | Mehmet | 1,130 | 435th |
| Belgium boys | Mehmet | 1,046 | 231st |
| Norway boys | Mehmet | 532 | 303rd |
| Switzerland boys | Mehmet | 369 | 311th |
| Poland boys | Mehmet | 24 birth registrations | 426th |
| Scotland boys | Mehmet | 6 | 480th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Mehmet: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Mehmet | 310 | 0.025% | 238th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Mehmet | 52 | 0.012% | 350th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Mehmet | 7 | 0.011% | 177th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Mehmet is most concentrated in Aargau, where 0.04% of children were given it – 61 of them.
Mehmet: rank by region
In 2025, Mehmet was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Mehmet | 714 | 7 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Mehmet appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (264th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Mehmet by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 177 | 127th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Mehmet among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Mehmet | 2,729 | 3,300 |
| Finland boys | Mehmet | 253 | 284 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Mehmet against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.