Ismet

given name · Turkish · Latin script

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

Ismet is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is the 75th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: 1. Masumluk, günahsızlık, temizlik.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye1 in 611◐
  • CYCyprus1 in 1.3K
  • SYSyria1 in 12K

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

≈5.9K ●

across 13 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
57 ●

929K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.4K ◐

North Macedonia

Spellings & scripts●

IsmetLatin · Turkish●888K records
ИсметCyrillic · Uzbek●757 records
ᲘსმეთGeorgian · Georgian●86 records

Locally spelled Исмет in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, UZ Uzbekistan.

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●

recorded in Turkish

1. Masumluk, günahsızlık, temizlik. 2. Haramdan çekinme, namus.

Sources 1

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

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Ismet is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#75884,154919K rec.—#60Ismet57
SY Syria—2,8072.8K rec.—1Ismet5
CY Cyprus#1281,7752.1K rec.——Ismet11
MK North Macedonia—1,527△193 rec.1 in 1.4K1.5KIsmet5
AL Albania—1,337—1 in 2.3K1.3K——
US United States—692△253 rec.1 in 481K692Ismet21
SI Slovenia—603△5 rec.1 in 3.5K603—1
SE Sweden—597△68 rec.1 in 17K597—2
BE Belgium—541548 rec.—2Ismet4
RU Russia—47156 rec.—#1,772Исмет32
HR Croatia—410—1 in 10K410——
GB United Kingdom—366344 rec.——Ismet18

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

Languages●

  • Turkish888K93%
  • German16K2%
  • Albanian7.2K1%
  • English5.8K1%
  • Croatian5.1K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish888,39593%
German15,8712%
Albanian7,1841%
English5,7941%
Croatian5,1421%

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◐

Ismet is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name25K records spelled Ismet8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Türkiye, Austria

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Ïsmet, Ismét, Işmet

  • Bulgarian given name15K records spelled Ismet26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia, Croatia

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Russian

    Also written Исмет, Ісмет, Işmet, Isмет, Ісмэт

  • French given name6.8K records spelled Ismet5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye, United States, Belgium

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ìsmet

  • Hindi given name1.4K records spelled Ismet5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, United Kingdom, Bangladesh

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bangla

    Also written Ismét

36 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.

Other recorded senses●

Ismet is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, Ismet är en turkisk form av det arabiska namnet Ismat som betyder ’ren, syndfri’.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In Arabic, President of Turkey (1938-

    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●

010020030019502000235 · 1963

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Ismet in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1904–2025
Yearrecords
19041
19051
19061
19072
19083
19111
19121
19154
19172
19182
19191
19207
19213
19221
19236
19245
19251
19264
19277
19288
19298
19307
19318
193215
19337
193412
193511
193614
193725
193833
193928
194037
194150
194250
194366
194475
194573
194675
194788
194884
194995
1950116
1951104
1952128
1953148
1954216
1955176
1956176
1957169
1958218
1959196
1960206
1961193
1962227
1963235
1964217
1965217
1966224
1967185
1968177
1969174
1970129
1971138
1972125
1973125
1974118
1975111
197692
197795
197882
197982
198063
198178
198259
198357
198443
198539
198638
198743
198816
198916
199015
199114
19926
19938
199420
199510
199615
199714
19989
199912
200021
20015
200212
200310
200412
20058
200611
200715
200816
200910
201014
201116
201217
201313
201412
201514
201612
20179
201810
20199
202014
20219
20223
202312
20247
20257

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 117 years between 1904–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Ismet Muftić, b. 1876İsmet İnönü, b. 1884İsmet Kür, b. 1916İsmet Sezgin, b. 1928İsmet Atlı, b. 1931Ismet Rizvić, b. 1933Ismat Gayibov, b. 1942İsmet Özel, b. 1944İsmet Yılmaz, b. 1961İsmet Saz, b. 1980

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 52 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Ismet
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—6.6K#25
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—1.3K#363
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020692#15,579
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2010679#208
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2025603#268
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—598#540
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—597#2,449
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020535—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—504#2,484
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021410#822
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)2021301—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—216#835

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 · 275 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ismet?
We estimate roughly 5.9 thousand people bear Ismet (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Ismet have the most bearers?
Ismet is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled ismet.
How common is Ismet compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Ismet is the 75th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
Is Ismet a male or female name?
Ismet 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 Ismet mean?
Recorded meaning: 1. Masumluk, günahsızlık, temizlik.
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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, “Ismet” — the 75th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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