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Mehmet: meaning and how its rank moved, 2018–2025
Two documented meanings for Mehmet in our database, the three language entries in our table, and TÜİK boys' ranks from 2018 to 2025, when it fell to twenty-ninth.
Mehmet was in TÜİK’s national top-30 list for boys in every year from 2018 to 2025. It moved from eleventh place to twenty-ninth over that period. This guide covers what our database records about its meaning, the languages where we list it, and its rank in each year.
What the name means
Our database holds two meaning entries for Mehmet, and both are recorded with the confidence level documented. The first reads praised; form of Muhammad. The second reads commendable, laudable, praised, praiseworthy. Both entries point to the same Arabic word, muḥammad, so they are two wordings of one origin rather than two different origins.
Our summary says Mehmet is the Turkish form of Muhammad, which goes back to an Arabic participle meaning praised. Our database also has an entry for Muhammad. The summary notes a Uyghur form, مەھەممەت (Mehemmet), cross-referenced to Turkish Mehmet.
Where the name is used
Our table lists Mehmet for three languages: Azerbaijani, Turkish and Uyghur. For Turkish and Uyghur, the table also notes that Wiktionary lists it as a given name in that language’s section. The usage status is recorded as unknown for all three.
How often it was given in Turkey, 2018–2025
In TÜİK’s boys’ top-30 lists, Mehmet ranked as follows:
- 2018: rank 11, count 4,357
- 2019: rank 11, count 4,010
- 2020: rank 13, count 3,602
- 2021: rank 18, count 3,328
- 2022: rank 19, count 3,129
- 2023: rank 22, count 2,562
- 2024: rank 27, count 2,397
- 2025: rank 29, count 2,101
The count fell in every year from 2018 to 2025. The rank moved down in every year except 2019, when it stayed at eleventh. Its best rank in this period was eleventh, so it was never in the top ten. Its count in 2025, 2,101, was less than half its 2018 count of 4,357.
Where the data comes from
Ranks and counts come from TÜİK’s name statistics page, which covers the most-given newborn names for 2018–2025. Our chart uses the same national top-30 lists, and a year without a point means the name was not in that year’s top 30. The counts are births in those top-30 lists, not all births in Turkey. Meanings and languages come from our own database, and confidence levels are shown as stored.
Sources
- TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) – newborn-name lists, 2018–2025