Semir

given name · Turkish · Latin script

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

Semir is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: 1. Arkadaş. 2. Nitelikli.

rarermore common
  • SYSyria1 in 2.4K◐
  • TRTürkiye1 in 32K
  • SISlovenia1 in 3.9K

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

≈2.2K ●

across 12 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
43 ●

34K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 3.9K ◐

Slovenia

Spellings & scripts●

SemirLatin · Turkish●26K records
সেমিরBengali · Bangla●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●

recorded in Turkish

1. Arkadaş. 2. Nitelikli. 3. Yamaç, dağ silsilesi.

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 Semir is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye—16,91718K rec.——Semir43
SY Syria#26314,07814K rec.——Semir8
US United States—607△303 rec.1 in 548K607Semir40
SI Slovenia—540△4 rec.1 in 3.9K540—3
SE Sweden—411△86 rec.1 in 25K411Semir19
IQ Iraq—379400 rec.——Semir3
SA Saudi Arabia—223111 rec.——Semir19
BR Brazil—172—1 in 1.2M172——
IN India—152131 rec.—5Semir5
HR Croatia—133—1 in 32K133——
DK Denmark—85—1 in 69K85——
PL Poland—83—1 in 461K84——

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

Languages●

  • Turkish26K51%
  • Arabic5.5K11%
  • German3.2K6%
  • English2.3K5%
  • Portuguese2.1K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish25,61451%
Arabic5,50311%
German3,1706%
English2,3145%
Portuguese2,1474%

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◐

Semir is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name7.0K records spelled Semir9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Austria, Netherlands

    Languages: German, English, Western Frisian

    Also written Sèmir, Sëmïr, Sémir

  • Croatian given name3.2K records spelled Semir10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in North Macedonia, Croatia, United States, Bosnia & Herzegovina

    Languages: Croatian, Macedonian, Bosnian

    Also written Семир, Šemir

  • Portuguese given name3.1K records spelled Semir6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Syria, Chile

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Semír, Sêmîr, Şemir, Sémir

  • French given name1.5K records spelled Semir4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Syria, Türkiye

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Sémir, Šèmīŕ

  • Amharic given name675 records spelled Semir2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Ethiopia, United States, Türkiye

    Also written ሰሚር

  • Russian given name543 records spelled Semir8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Türkiye, Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Семир, Семір, Şemir

33 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●

Semir 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 Indonesian, smear, a fat substance, such as shoe polish and machine lubrication

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

  • In non, second-person singular active present subjunctive of semja

    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●

0510152020002010202019 · 2001

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Semir in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1996–2025
Yearrecords
19965
19975
199810
199911
200010
200119
200210
200311
200413
20056
200610
20079
20089
20099
20106
20115
20129
201310
20147
201510
201612
201710
20188
201911
20206
202112
20226
202311
202411
20257

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 30 years between 1996–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Semir Zeki, b. 1940Semir Osmanagić, b. 1960Semir Tuce, b. 1964Semir Ben-Amor, b. 1982Semir Hadžibulić, b. 1986Semir Štilić, b. 1987Semir Kerla, b. 1987Semir Bajraktarević, b. 1987Semir Bukvić, b. 1991Semir Telalovic, b. 1999

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 44 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Semir
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020607#17,747
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2025540#288
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2024535#287
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—532#588
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2023514#289
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2022474#303
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2021469#302
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2020456#302
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—411#3,177
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2019380#329
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020350—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—331#1,535

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 · 239 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Semir?
We estimate roughly 2.2 thousand people bear Semir (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Semir have the most bearers?
Semir is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled semir.
How common is Semir compared with other names?
In Syria, Semir is the 263rd most common given name of 109,868 given names recorded there.
Is Semir a male or female name?
Semir 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 Semir mean?
Recorded meaning: 1. Arkadaş. 2. Nitelikli.
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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, “Semir” — the 263rd most common given name in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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