Emre
given name · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Emre is a given name, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 41st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Kurdish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name which means "Lover", "Friend", "Poet/Bard".
- TRTürkiye1 in 333◐
- CYCyprus1 in 1.6K
- ATAustria1 in 3.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈256K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 227 ●
- 1 in 333 ◐
across 12 countries
recorded for this name
1.1M records
Official registry-verified
Türkiye
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Ემრე in GE Georgia.
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●
a male given name which means "Lover", "Friend", "Poet/Bard"
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 | #41 | 246,346 | 1.1M rec. | 1 in 333 | 246K | Emre | 176 |
| DE Germany | #557 | 27,293 | 27K rec. | — | — | Emre | 161 |
| AT Austria | #415 | 5,263 | 2.6K rec. | — | 698 | Emre | 68 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,225 | 1.8K rec. | — | 3 | Emre | 98 |
| FR France | — | 2,800△ | 5 rec. | 1 in 24K | 2.8K | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | #930 | 2,637 | 4.2K rec. | 1 in 6.6K | 2.6K | Emre | 70 |
| BE Belgium | #790 | 2,352 | 2.4K rec. | — | 24 | Emre | 52 |
| CY Cyprus | #158 | 1,415 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Emre | 31 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,391 | 1.4K rec. | — | 2 | Emre | 64 |
| US United States | — | 1,296 | 8.1K rec. | 1 in 257K | 1.3K | Emre | 227 |
| CH Switzerland | #684 | 931 | 825 rec. | — | 41 | Emre | 38 |
| SE Sweden | #642 | 888 | 1.4K rec. | 1 in 11K | 888 | Emre | 41 |
Roughly 246K people in Türkiye bear this name (about 1 in 333). 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●
- Turkish1M73%
- Kurdish246K17%
- German34K2%
- English26K2%
- French26K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 1,045,886 | 73% |
| Kurdish | 246,437 | 17% |
| German | 34,176 | 2% |
| English | 25,814 | 2% |
| French | 25,666 | 2% |
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●
Emre is also recorded in 3 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. Âşık, tutkun. 2. Halk şairi. 3. Kardeş. 4. Arkadaş
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Swedish, Emre är ett turkiskt namn med betydelsen ’vän; älskare’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, männl. Vom. türkischer Herkunft (»Geliebter, Freund«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1978 | 5 |
| 1983 | 6 |
| 1985 | 7 |
| 1987 | 6 |
| 1988 | 6 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1990 | 10 |
| 1991 | 7 |
| 1993 | 8 |
| 1994 | 9 |
| 1995 | 16 |
| 1996 | 18 |
| 1997 | 16 |
| 1998 | 21 |
| 1999 | 16 |
| 2000 | 18 |
| 2001 | 24 |
| 2002 | 32 |
| 2003 | 39 |
| 2004 | 29 |
| 2005 | 26 |
| 2006 | 32 |
| 2007 | 29 |
| 2008 | 27 |
| 2009 | 36 |
| 2010 | 43 |
| 2011 | 30 |
| 2012 | 29 |
| 2013 | 34 |
| 2014 | 25 |
| 2015 | 31 |
| 2016 | 37 |
| 2017 | 38 |
| 2018 | 26 |
| 2019 | 35 |
| 2020 | 36 |
| 2021 | 30 |
| 2022 | 30 |
| 2023 | 36 |
| 2024 | 30 |
| 2025 | 31 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 41 years between 1978–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Emre Kınayb. 1970TRTurkish actor (born 1970)
- Emre Aşıkb. 1973TRTurkish association football player (born 1973)
- Emre Belözoğlub. 1980TRTurkish association football player and coach (born 1980)
- Emre Güngörb. 1984TRTurkish association football player (born 1984)
- Emre Akbabab. 1992FRTurkish association football player (born 1992)
- Emre Canb. 1994DETurkish-German association football player (born 1994)
- Emre Kılınçb. 1994TRTurkish association football player (born 1994)
- Emre Taşdemirb. 1995TRTurkish association football player (born 1995)
- Emre Morb. 1997TRTurkish association football player (born 1997)
- Emre Demirb. 2004TRTurkish association football player (born 2004)
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 62 sources across 32 countries.
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 · 487 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Emre?
- We estimate roughly 256 thousand people bear Emre (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Emre have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 246 thousand people bear Emre in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled emre.
- Where is Emre most common?
- Emre is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 333 people carrying it.
- How common is Emre compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Emre is the 41st most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
- Is Emre a male or female name?
- Emre is a male 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 Emre mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name which means "Lover", "Friend", "Poet/Bard"
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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, “Emre” — the 41st most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.