Izmir
loc · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Izmir is a name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Izmir (a province and metropolitan municipality in western Anatolia in Turkey, along the Mediterranean coast).
- TRTürkiye1 in 42◐
- ALAlbania1 in 7.2K
- UZUzbekistan1 in 17K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈694 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 27 ●
- 1 in 7.2K ◐
across 5 countries
recorded for this name
7.2K records
Official registry-verified
Albania
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Измир in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and 1 more.
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●
Izmir (a province and metropolitan municipality in western Anatolia in Turkey, along the Mediterranean coast)
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 | 3,272,163 | 7.1K rec. | — | — | Izmir | 26 |
| AL Albania | 426 | — | 1 in 7.2K | 426 | — | — |
| KZ Kazakhstan | 222△ | 20 rec. | 1 in 86K | 222 | Измир | 16 |
| RU Russia | 205 | 6 rec. | — | — | Измир | 27 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | 100 | 4 rec. | — | — | Izmir | 2 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | 56 | 7 rec. | — | — | Измир | 7 |
| MK North Macedonia | 29 | — | 1 in 73K | 29 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 10 | — | 1 in 1M | 10 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 7 | — | 1 in 5.5M | 7 | — | — |
| AZ Azerbaijan | 7 | 6 rec. | — | listed | Измир | 2 |
| XK Kosovo | — | — | — | 62 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | — | — | 15 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Turkish3.3M92%
- Arabic23K1%
- Persian3771%
- English2981%
- Azerbaijani1861%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 3,272,159 | 92% |
| Arabic | 23,152 | 1% |
| Persian | 377 | 1% |
| English | 298 | 1% |
| Azerbaijani | 186 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Izmir Smajlajb. 1993ALAlbanian male long jumper
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 19 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 426 | #1,063 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 62 | #3,905 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #35,042 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #36,331 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 10 | #35,436 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 7 | #13,593 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #14,148 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 6 | #73,030 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #108,986 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1993 | 4 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1966 | 4 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2017 | 3 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 59 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Izmir?
- We estimate roughly 694 people bear Izmir (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Izmir have the most bearers?
- Izmir is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled izmir.
- What does the name Izmir mean?
- Recorded meaning: Izmir (a province and metropolitan municipality in western Anatolia in Turkey, along the Mediterranean coast)
Query this name via API
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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, “Izmir”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.