Murat

given name · Turkish · Latin script

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

Murat is a given name, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 23rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Kurdish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: habitational name from any of various places named Murat, in Allier, Cantal, Correze, Puy-de-D6me, and Tam.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye1 in 155◐
  • ZWZimbabwe1 in 349
  • CYCyprus1 in 742

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

≈541K ●

across 13 countries

#851 ●

of 16M given names

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
258 ●

2.9M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 155 ◐

Türkiye

Spellings & scripts●

MuratLatin · Turkish●2.6M records
МуратCyrillic · Russian●263K records
ᲛურათGeorgian · Georgian●277 records
ΜουράτGreek · Greek●1 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Мурат in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and 4 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●

habitational name from any of various places named Murat, in Allier, Cantal, Correze, Puy-de-D6me, and Tam.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Murat is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#23527,6482.6M rec.1 in 155528KMurat198
RU Russia#217187,795127K rec.—#117Мурат146
KG Kyrgyzstan#17318,5447.6K rec.——Мурат18
UA Ukraine#5257,0888.4K rec.—listedМурат28
TM Turkmenistan#1306,4067.1K rec.——Murat12
GB United Kingdom—4,6011.8K rec.——Murat109
KZ Kazakhstan#744,451109K rec.1 in 4.3K21KМурат52
IN India—4,3801.6K rec.—12Murat36
BE Belgium#5803,3543.5K rec.—438Murat69
CY Cyprus#843,0673.8K rec.——Murat31
UZ Uzbekistan#7242,9071K rec.—listedМурат23
ZW Zimbabwe#452,4162 rec.——Мурат1

Roughly 528K people in Türkiye bear this name (about 1 in 155). 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●

  • Turkish2.6M76%
  • Kurdish534K15%
  • German64K2%
  • Hindi37K1%
  • English32K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish2,631,17876%
Kurdish534,06015%
German64,1922%
Hindi37,2451%
English31,5591%

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◐

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

  • Kurdish given name535K records spelled Murat5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Syria

    Languages: Kurdish, Persian, Tajik

    Also written Мурат

  • German given name130K records spelled Murat28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Türkiye, United States, Netherlands

    Languages: German, English, Western Frisian

    Also written M'Urat, Mu'Rat, Murát, 'Murat, Mùràt

  • Hindi given name60K records spelled Murat22 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bangla

    Also written Marut, মুরত, মরত, মুরাত, মরতু

  • French given name59K records spelled Murat9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye, Belgium, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written M'Urat, Muràt, Mùrat, Mùràt, Mūrat

  • Spanish given name19K records spelled Murat13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Argentina, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written M'Urat, Múrat, Múrât, 'Murat, Murát

  • Arabic given name11K records spelled Murat12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia

    Languages: Arabic, Amharic, Maltese

    Also written M'Urat, 'Murat, Mûrât, Mürat, Mùràt

  • English given name9.6K records spelled Murat78 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Algeria, Russia, Bangladesh, Georgia

    Languages: English, Russian, Arabic

    Also written Murad, Мурад, Მურად, Მურადი, Мурат

50 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●

Murat is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Turkish, aim, intention

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Turkish, 1. İstek, dilek, arzu. 2. Amaç.

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

  • In French, de (Le) Murat, nom de plusieurs localités surtout dans le sud de la France.

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

  • In Swedish, Murat är en turkisk form av det arabiska Murad (Mourad) som betyder ’önskan; vilja’.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In English, Joachim, French militarist

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper 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●

020406019001950200054 · 1958

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Murat in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1853–2025
Yearrecords
18531
18761
18782
18802
18822
18831
18841
18862
18871
18881
18902
18921
18932
18941
18953
18961
18973
18982
19009
19013
19026
19036
190410
19057
19065
19074
19087
190911
191014
19112
19127
19135
191411
19158
191610
19175
19189
19193
192012
19217
19226
19235
192411
192513
192613
192718
192819
192922
193026
193116
193229
193330
193434
193523
193621
193732
193825
193930
194044
194128
194228
194323
194431
194538
194632
194744
194830
194928
195041
195126
195235
195329
195435
195549
195639
195731
195854
195944
196048
196149
196241
196335
196429
196537
196651
196751
196838
196934
197045
197125
197236
197337
197441
197542
197637
197730
197817
197923
198030
198134
198227
198330
198427
198532
198634
198724
198819
198924
199013
199123
199222
199323
199411
199514
199617
199716
199814
199910
200021
200119
200220
20038
200410
200510
200613
20079
200815
20094
201010
20118
20127
20138
20148
20153
20167
20176
20182
20191
20205
202112
20222
20233
20245
20253

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 144 years between 1853–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

12001400160018002000Murad I, b. 1326Murad II, b. 1403Murad III, b. 1546Murad IV, b. 1612Murad V, b. 1840René Auberjonois, b. 1940Murat Zyazikov, b. 1957Murat Yakın, b. 1974Mehmet Okur, b. 1979Murat Boz, b. 1980
  • Murad Ib. 1326TRnot in their usual namethird Ottoman sultan (1362–1389)
  • Murad IIb. 1403TRnot in their usual namesixth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1421–1444, 1446–1451)
  • Murad IIIb. 1546TRnot in their usual name12th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1574–1595)
  • Murad IVb. 1612TRnot in their usual namethe 17th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1623–1640)
  • Murad Vb. 1840TRnot in their usual name33th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876)
  • René Auberjonoisb. 1940USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1940–2019)
  • Murat Zyazikovb. 1957RURussian politician
  • Murat Yakınb. 1974CHSwiss association football player and coach
  • Mehmet Okurb. 1979TRnot in their usual nameTurkish basketball player (born 1979)
  • Murat Bozb. 1980TRTurkish singer (born 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 83 sources across 41 countries.

Official registers attesting Murat
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
TR TürkiyeTÜİK NIP — most used given names2025528K#7
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—2.7K#252
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20242K#2,859
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.9K#7,862
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—1.4K#1,749
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026950#497
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—904#1,753
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—886#556
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—880#499
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—811#1,979
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020650—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020633#37,769

Reference works 8

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 673 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Murat?
We estimate roughly 541 thousand people bear Murat (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Murat have the most bearers?
We estimate about 528 thousand people bear Murat in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled murat.
Where is Murat most common?
Murat is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 155 people carrying it.
How common is Murat compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Murat is the 23rd most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
Is Murat a male or female name?
Murat 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 Murat mean?
Recorded meaning: habitational name from any of various places named Murat, in Allier, Cantal, Correze, Puy-de-D6me, and Tam.
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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, “Murat” — the 23rd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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