Kadir

given name · Turkish · Latin script

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

Kadir is a given name, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 33rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Kurdish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Arabic which means "powerful", "mighty".

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye1 in 425◐
  • CYCyprus1 in 2K
  • BEBelgium1 in 7.4K

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

≈196K ●

across 13 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
120 ●

1.3M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 425 ◐

Türkiye

Spellings & scripts●

KadirLatin · Turkish●1.4M records
ᲙადირGeorgian · Georgian●82 records
КадирCyrillic · Tajik●2 records
카디르Hangul · Korean●0 records

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 from Arabic which means "powerful", "mighty"

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.

Where Kadir is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#33193,0251.3M rec.1 in 425193KKadir120
IN India—2,2541.1K rec.—503Kadir33
BE Belgium#8622,1052.1K rec.—28Kadir35
SY Syria—1,8664.7K rec.——Kadir6
CY Cyprus#2001,1251.3K rec.——Kadir18
GB United Kingdom—1,006421 rec.——Kadir58
FR France—970△1 rec.1 in 70K970—1
US United States—720936 rec.1 in 462K947Kadir104
MK North Macedonia—483△87 rec.1 in 4.4K483—7
SE Sweden—473△165 rec.1 in 22K473—17
CH Switzerland—453425 rec.—47Kadir21
AF Afghanistan#516285297 rec.——Kadir4

Roughly 193K people in Türkiye bear this name (about 1 in 425). 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●

  • Turkish1.4M73%
  • Kurdish198K11%
  • Hindi106K6%
  • 40K2%
  • German23K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish1,353,91673%
Kurdish197,91311%
Hindi106,4456%
40,3412%
German23,0031%

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◐

Kadir is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name220K records spelled Kadir40 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Türkiye, Bangladesh, Malaysia

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written Kader, কাদের, Kadari, Kaader, Kåděr

  • German given name122K records spelled Kadir16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Türkiye, India, Netherlands

    Languages: German, English, Western Frisian

    Also written K'Adir, Kâdir, Ķadîř, Kàdir, Kådîr

  • a separate given name71K records spelled Kadir5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Ethiopia, Türkiye, United States

    Also written Kaḍir, Kādir, Ḵaḍīr, Ḵaḍir

  • French given name16K records spelled Kadir10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye, Belgium, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written K'Adir, Ķādīř, Kǟdir, Kãdïr, Kàdïr

  • Russian given name12K records spelled Kadir42 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian

    Also written Кадыр, Кадир, Kadyr, Кадір, Qadir

  • Spanish given name11K records spelled Kadir9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Panama, United States, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written K'Adir, Kädïr, Ķâdïr, Kaďir, Kâdîr

  • Chinese given name9.6K records spelled Kadir2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Malaysia, Netherlands, Belgium

    Also written K'Adir

49 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●

Kadir 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 Turkish, 1. Kuvvetli, güçlü, kudret sahibi. 2. Değer, onur, kıymet, şeref.3. Allah’ın adlarındandır.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

  • In Arabic, powerful, able

    as a nameAfrican 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●

02505007501K190019201940196019802000994 · 1993

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Kadir in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2015
Yearrecords
18991
19185
19191
19204
19227
19238
19248
19254
192612
19279
192816
192916
193020
193119
193223
193340
193437
193538
193627
193738
193849
193977
194070
194170
194286
194375
1944156
1945105
1946126
1947134
1948154
1949197
1950149
1951163
1952227
1953191
1954295
1955235
1956238
1957296
1958330
1959409
1960343
1961325
1962500
1963399
1964516
1965488
1966503
1967551
1968499
1969535
1970523
1971491
1972650
1973610
1974575
1975587
1976695
1977520
1978622
1979534
1980601
1981619
1982861
1983738
1984858
1985712
1986646
1987776
1988754
1989731
1990792
1991880
1992896
1993994
1994693
1995625
1996279
1997255
1998148
19997
20011
20071
200846
20094
201037
201123
201210
201324
201490
201542

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 92 years between 1899–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019201940196019802000Qodir Zokirov, b. 1906Kadir Savun, b. 1926Kadir Nurman, b. 1933Kadir Mısıroğlu, b. 1933Kadir Topbaş, b. 1945Cenk Uygur, b. 1970Kadir Nelson, b. 1974Kadir Cermik, b. 1977Kadir Doğulu, b. 1982Hakan Balta, b. 1983
  • Qodir Zokirovb. 1906UZnot in their usual nameUzbekistani scientist (1906-1992)
  • Kadir Savunb. 1926TRTurkish actor (1926–1995)
  • Kadir Nurmanb. 1933TRTurkish-German restaurateur (1933–2013)
  • Kadir Mısıroğlub. 1933TRTurkish conspiracy theorist (1933–2019)
  • Kadir Topbaşb. 1945TR5th Mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan City (1945–2021)
  • Cenk Uygurb. 1970USnot in their usual nameTurkish-American online news show host (born 1970)
  • Kadir Nelsonb. 1974USAmerican children's illustrator and writer
  • Kadir Cermikb. 1977TRTurkish actor (born 1977)
  • Kadir Doğulub. 1982TRTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1982)
  • Hakan Baltab. 1983TRnot in their usual nameTurkish association football player (born 1983)

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 71 sources across 38 countries.

Official registers attesting Kadir
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
TR TürkiyeTÜİK NIP — most used given names2025193K#22
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024970#2,632
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020786#31,542
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020720#15,735
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—660#2,689
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010563#39,117
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—503#9,136
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—473#2,884
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—348#3,201
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000342#55,971
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—246#6,360
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)2024244#536

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 · 603 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kadir?
We estimate roughly 196 thousand people bear Kadir (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Kadir have the most bearers?
We estimate about 193 thousand people bear Kadir in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled kadir.
Where is Kadir most common?
Kadir is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 425 people carrying it.
How common is Kadir compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Kadir is the 33rd most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
Is Kadir a male or female name?
Kadir 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 Kadir mean?
Recorded meaning: a male given name from Arabic which means "powerful", "mighty"
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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, “Kadir” — the 33rd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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