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Mehmet

#5,142 in 2025Boys' name

To praise, commend, laud, through محمد

Mehmet has been given to 837 babies in the U.S. since 1960. In 2025 it ranked #5,142 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 42 recorded.

Babies named Mehmet, 2025

1 in 174,000

Mehmet over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mehmet: meaning, origin, and history

To praise, commend, laud, through محمد

Turkish and Arabic

What Mehmet means

Mehmet belongs to the name family reached through Mehmet → محمد → مُحَمَّد. Its meaning is “to praise, commend, laud”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Ottoman Turkish محمد (Mehmed, Mehmet), from Arabic مُحَمَّد (muḥammad). Doublet of Muhammad, Mahomet, and Baphomet.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Mehmet (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Mehmet is used in English, German and Turkish. Its origins include Turkish and Arabic.

Mehmet comes through Ottoman Turkish محمد and Arabic مُحَمَّد.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Muhammad, Mahomet, محمد and مُحَمَّد.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Mehmet is pronounced /ˈmɛmɛt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 837 boys were recorded with the name Mehmet between 1960 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 42 in 2015; its best national rank was #2,841 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,180 in 2020 to #5,142 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,841 in 2015 to #5,142 in 2025.

How common is Mehmet?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 89,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,142
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mehmet sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mehmet. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mehmets were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mehmet was born before 2011 — so the typical Mehmet is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
837
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.9% of all recorded uses (334).

Is Mehmet rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−628
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,038
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,301
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
45.2%
Peak was 2015 (42)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,841
2015

Spellings of Mehmet

Mehmet is not the most common spelling — Emmet is, with 82.3% against Mehmet's 9.9%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Mehmet is used

Across 1910–2025, Mehmet was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 313,450 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Mehmet has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mehmet around the world

Where Mehmet ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,153
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2003–2009
    #626
    in 2009
  • France
    1970–2025
    #1,026
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2023
    #451
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1974–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Mehmet by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,142
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,038
Best rank ever
#2,841
2015
Peak year
2015
42 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
837
Count in 2025
19

Names similar to Mehmet

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Mehmet

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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