Emel
given name · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Emel is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. In Syria it is the 50th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: goal.
- SYSyria1 in 655◐
- TRTürkiye1 in 1.3K
- COColombia1 in 37K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.6K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 114 ●
- 1 in 6.8K ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
527K records
Official registry-verified
North Macedonia
Spellings & scripts●
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●
goal
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 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 | #230 | 430,438 | 464K rec. | — | — | Emel | 105 |
| SY Syria | #50 | 50,835 | 51K rec. | — | — | Emel | 6 |
| CO Colombia | — | 1,660 | 910 rec. | — | — | Emel | 45 |
| IQ Iraq | — | 1,322 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Emel | 3 |
| PH Philippines | — | 1,296 | 814 rec. | — | — | Emel | 17 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,121 | 896 rec. | — | 267 | Emel | 30 |
| CY Cyprus | #236 | 999 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Emel | 11 |
| PE Peru | — | 746 | 625 rec. | — | — | Emel | 21 |
| BE Belgium | — | 682 | 701 rec. | — | 8 | Emel | 18 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 469 | 466 rec. | — | — | Emel | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 457 | 314 rec. | — | — | Emel | 46 |
| AL Albania | — | 407 | — | 1 in 7.6K | 407 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Turkish445K84%
- Arabic38K7%
- German9.7K2%
- English6.7K1%
- French6.2K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 444,650 | 84% |
| Arabic | 37,806 | 7% |
| German | 9,703 | 2% |
| English | 6,720 | 1% |
| French | 6,205 | 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●
Emel 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, Gerçekleştirilmesi zamana bağlı istek.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In German, weibl. Vom., türkische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ambición
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In tnt, cold, cooled, of cooked food or boiled water that has cooled
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Hungarian, to lift, raise, hoist
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 90 |
| 2000 | 95 |
| 2001 | 102 |
| 2002 | 105 |
| 2003 | 112 |
| 2004 | 115 |
| 2005 | 117 |
| 2006 | 117 |
| 2007 | 126 |
| 2008 | 129 |
| 2009 | 133 |
| 2010 | 138 |
| 2011 | 141 |
| 2012 | 150 |
| 2013 | 153 |
| 2014 | 157 |
| 2015 | 157 |
| 2016 | 157 |
| 2017 | 161 |
| 2018 | 163 |
| 2019 | 163 |
| 2020 | 167 |
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●
- Emel Esinb. 1914TRTurkish art historian (1914–1987)
- Emel Korutürkb. 1915TRTurkish painter (1915–2013)
- Emel Eminb. 1938ROCrimean Tatar poet
- Emel Sayınb. 1945TRTurkish actor and singer (born 1945)
- Emel Etem Toshkovab. 1958BGBulgarian politician
- Emel Müftüoğlub. 1961TRTurkish singer (born 1961)
- Emi Stambolovab. 1973BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian pop-folk musician
- Emel Çölgeçenb. 1976TRTurkish actor (born 1976)
- Emel Mathlouthib. 1982TNTunisian singer and songwriter
- Emel Derelib. 1996TRTurkish athletics competitor (born 1996)
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 57 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2022 | 665 | #2,781 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 632 | #37,808 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 600 | #37,180 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 559 | #37,480 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 407 | #1,057 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 362 | #20,952 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 267 | #4,649 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 253 | #4,434 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 192 | #4,917 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 175 | #2,035 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 167 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 127 | #20,952 |
Reference works 3
- 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 · 267 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Emel?
- We estimate roughly 1.6 thousand people bear Emel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Emel have the most bearers?
- Emel is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled emel.
- How common is Emel compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Emel is the 230th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
- Is Emel a male or female name?
- Emel 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 Emel mean?
- Recorded meaning: goal
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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.
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, “Emel” — the 230th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.