Aysel

given name · Turkish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Aysel is a given name, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 57th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Kurdish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Ay gibi parlak, ışıklı, güzel.

rarermore common
  • AZAzerbaijan1 in 251◐
  • TRTürkiye1 in 497
  • CYCyprus1 in 1.2K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈166K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
95 ●

1.2M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 497 ◐

Türkiye

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Turkish

Ay gibi parlak, ışıklı, güzel.

Sources 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Aysel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#57165,1171.2M rec.1 in 497165KAysel95
AZ Azerbaijan#817,5722K rec.—215Aysel45
KG Kyrgyzstan#8683,80515 rec.——Aysel3
CY Cyprus#1211,9032.3K rec.——Aysel18
BE Belgium—1,2171.2K rec.—6Aysel16
SY Syria—532537 rec.——Aysel5
US United States—438880 rec.1 in 759K438Aysel87
CH Switzerland—420405 rec.—11Aysel6
GB United Kingdom—354232 rec.——Aysel36
SE Sweden—238237 rec.1 in 43K238Aysel17
NL Netherlands—2061.4K rec.1 in 84K206Aysel31
ES Spain—192△25 rec.1 in 260K192—16

Roughly 165K people in Türkiye bear this name (about 1 in 497). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Turkish996K81%
  • Kurdish169K14%
  • Azerbaijani17K1%
  • German15K1%
  • French4.8K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish996,35081%
Kurdish169,20214%
Azerbaijani16,6111%
German14,6561%
French4,8181%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Aysel is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name21K records spelled Aysel6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Türkiye, Austria, Netherlands

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Ayşel

  • French given name10.0K records spelled Aysel9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Argentina, Türkiye, Spain

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Aysél, Áysel, Aysęl

  • Russian given name7.2K records spelled Aysel65 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Georgia

    Languages: Russian, Kazakh, Bulgarian

    Also written Айсель, Айсел, Аисель, Აისელ, Aisel

32 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.

Over time●

05010015020020002005201020152020

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Aysel in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199984
200088
200190
200292
200394
200495
200597
2006105
2007112
2008121
2009127
2010128
2011130
2012142
2013146
2014150
2015153
2016154
2017155
2018160
2019163
2020172

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

192019401960198020002020Aysel Gürel, b. 1929Muhterem Nur, b. 1932Aysel Çelikel, b. 1933Aysel Baykal, b. 1939Aysel Özakın, b. 1942Aysel Taş, b. 1964Aysel Tuğluk, b. 1965Aysel Teymurzadə, b. 1989Aisel, b. 1989Aysel Özkan, b. 2002

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 50 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Aysel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
TR TürkiyeTÜİK NIP — most used given names2025165K#22
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020438#22,430
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2009240#2,408
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—238#4,629
AZ AzerbaijanAzerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics—215—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—210#4,619
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—206#3,521
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—192#9,330
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020172—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—169#6,005
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—142#5,272
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—137#1,286

Reference works 4

  • 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)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 229 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Aysel?
We estimate roughly 166 thousand people bear Aysel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Aysel have the most bearers?
We estimate about 165 thousand people bear Aysel in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled aysel.
How common is Aysel compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Aysel is the 57th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
Is Aysel a male or female name?
Aysel 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 Aysel mean?
Recorded meaning: Ay gibi parlak, ışıklı, güzel.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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.

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, “Aysel” — the 57th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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