Arzu
given name · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Arzu is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. In Azerbaijan it is the 11th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: wish, desire.
- AZAzerbaijan1 in 284◐
- TRTürkiye1 in 885
- CYCyprus1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.1K ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 137 ●
- 1 in 3.3K ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
683K records
Official registry-verified
Georgia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Арзу in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, UA Ukraine and 2 more, Არზუ in GE Georgia and อารซู in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
wish, desire
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #140 | 610,967 | 646K rec. | — | #91 | Arzu | 103 |
| RU Russia | #800 | 25,267 | 16K rec. | — | #735 | Арзу | 121 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #11 | 15,530 | 4.1K rec. | — | 620 | Arzu | 48 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #845 | 3,893 | 137 rec. | — | — | Arzu | 11 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 2,303 | 2.5K rec. | — | — | Арзу | 17 |
| BG Bulgaria | #720 | 1,432 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Arzu | 37 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | 1,364 | 2.1K rec. | 1 in 14K | 1.4K | Арзу | 35 |
| CY Cyprus | #161 | 1,362 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Arzu | 15 |
| GE Georgia | #520 | 1,197 | 961 rec. | 1 in 3.3K | 1.2K | Არზუ | 16 |
| BE Belgium | — | 879 | 882 rec. | — | 20 | Arzu | 21 |
| IN India | — | 614 | 404 rec. | — | 1 | Arzu | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 546 | 344 rec. | — | listed | Arzu | 52 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Turkish615K91%
- German15K2%
- Azerbaijani11K2%
- English6K1%
- French5.7K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 615,230 | 91% |
| German | 15,497 | 2% |
| Azerbaijani | 10,886 | 2% |
| English | 5,979 | 1% |
| French | 5,717 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Arzu is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. İstek, dilek. 2. Heves.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Arabic, wish, hope, love. See Arzu (m.). See Munya die; Murad a). (m.)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Kurdish, alternative form of arezû
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Arabic, ! (aarzu): wish, hope, love. Siraj-ud-Din Ali Khan Arzu: an eminent Indian poet in Urdu (1689-1756).”°
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, wish; hope; love
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1982 | 5 |
| 1994 | 5 |
| 2004 | 5 |
| 2005 | 5 |
| 2007 | 5 |
| 2008 | 7 |
| 2009 | 9 |
| 2010 | 7 |
| 2011 | 7 |
| 2012 | 9 |
| 2013 | 7 |
| 2015 | 11 |
| 2016 | 6 |
| 2017 | 6 |
| 2018 | 6 |
| 2019 | 7 |
| 2020 | 6 |
| 2021 | 11 |
| 2022 | 15 |
| 2023 | 7 |
| 2024 | 12 |
| 2025 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 23 years between 1980–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Arzu Tokerb. 1952TRTurkish-German writer (born 1952)
- Arzu Okayb. 1955TRTurkish actor (born 1955)
- Arzu Rana Deubab. 1962NPNepali politician (born 1962)
- Arzu Eceb. 1963TRTurkish singer (born 1963)
- Arzu Rahimovb. 1964AZAzerbaijani politician (born 1964)
- Arzu Gamze Kılınçb. 1969TRTurkish actor (born 1969)
- Arzu Bazmanb. 1977DEGerman actress
- Arzu Şahinb. 1978TRTurkish singer (born 1978)
- Arzu Geybullayevab. 1983AZAzerbaijani columnist, blogger and journalist
- Arzu Alievab. 1989AZAzerbaijani director and filmmaker
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 56 sources across 32 countries.
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 243 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Arzu?
- We estimate roughly 4.1 thousand people bear Arzu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Arzu have the most bearers?
- Arzu is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled arzu.
- How common is Arzu compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Arzu is the 140th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
- Is Arzu a male or female name?
- Arzu is a female 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 Arzu mean?
- Recorded meaning: wish, desire
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Arzu” — the 140th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.