Merve
given name · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Merve is a given name, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 47th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Kurdish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name from Arabic, a hill near Mecca.
- TRTürkiye1 in 280◐
- SYSyria1 in 1.7K
- NLNetherlands1 in 12K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈297K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 146 ●
- 1 in 280 ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
971K records
Official registry-verified
Türkiye
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●
a female given name from Arabic, a hill near Mecca.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 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 | #47 | 293,380 | 943K rec. | 1 in 280 | 293K | Merve | 129 |
| SY Syria | #179 | 19,160 | 19K rec. | — | — | Merve | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,446 | 1.8K rec. | 1 in 12K | 1.4K | Merve | 57 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1,261 | 1.2K rec. | — | 6 | Merve | 27 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 723 | 388 rec. | — | listed | Merve | 50 |
| CY Cyprus | #427 | 640 | 761 rec. | — | — | Merve | 19 |
| US United States | — | 521 | 1.3K rec. | 1 in 638K | 521 | Merve | 146 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 413 | 384 rec. | — | — | Merve | 26 |
| SE Sweden | — | 378 | 519 rec. | 1 in 27K | 378 | Merve | 23 |
| AF Afghanistan | #413 | 341 | 341 rec. | — | — | Merve | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 329 | — | 1 in 18K | 329 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 312 | 0 rec. | 1 in 123K | 312 | — | 1 |
Roughly 293K people in Türkiye bear this name (about 1 in 280). 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●
- Turkish978K72%
- Kurdish293K22%
- German18K1%
- English14K1%
- French13K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 977,824 | 72% |
| Kurdish | 293,380 | 22% |
| German | 17,604 | 1% |
| English | 14,409 | 1% |
| French | 13,441 | 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●
Merve 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. Çakıl taşı.2. Mekke’de hacıların yedi kez gidip geldikleri kutsal dağın adı.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Swedish, Se Marwa.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Hungarian, adverbial participle of mer
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●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 1 |
| 1992 | 5 |
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1994 | 9 |
| 1995 | 7 |
| 1996 | 12 |
| 1997 | 17 |
| 1998 | 13 |
| 1999 | 20 |
| 2000 | 20 |
| 2001 | 33 |
| 2002 | 14 |
| 2003 | 26 |
| 2004 | 20 |
| 2005 | 31 |
| 2006 | 32 |
| 2007 | 27 |
| 2008 | 17 |
| 2009 | 22 |
| 2010 | 15 |
| 2011 | 22 |
| 2012 | 18 |
| 2013 | 13 |
| 2014 | 15 |
| 2015 | 10 |
| 2016 | 11 |
| 2017 | 10 |
| 2018 | 10 |
| 2019 | 2 |
| 2020 | 10 |
| 2021 | 4 |
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2 |
AT Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) — 33 years between 1991–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Merve Kavakcıb. 1968TRTurkish academic and statesperson (born 1968)
- Merve Kayanb. 1981TRTurkish screenwriter (born 1981)
- Merve Dizdarb. 1986TRTurkish actor (born 1986)
- Merve Boluğurb. 1987TRTurkish actor (born 1987)
- Merve Oflazb. 1988TRTurkish actor (born 1988)
- Merve Özbeyb. 1988TRTurkish singer (born 1988)
- Merve Büyüksaraçb. 1988TRTurkish beauty pageant titleholder (born 1988)
- Merve Çağıranb. 1992TRTurkish actor (born 1992)
- Merve Çobanb. 1993TRTurkish karateka (born 1993)
- Merve ErdoğanTRTurkish actor
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 45 sources across 28 countries.
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 · 223 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Merve?
- We estimate roughly 297 thousand people bear Merve (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Merve have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 293 thousand people bear Merve in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled merve.
- Where is Merve most common?
- Merve is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 280 people carrying it.
- How common is Merve compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Merve is the 47th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
- Is Merve a male or female name?
- Merve 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 Merve mean?
- Recorded meaning: a female given name from Arabic, a hill near Mecca.
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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, “Merve” — the 47th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.