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Yavuz

#13,835 in 2025Boys' name

Stern, grim

Yavuz has been given to 82 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #13,835 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Yavuz, 2025

1 in 663,000

Yavuz over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yavuz: meaning, origin, and history

Stern, grim

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yavuz means

Yavuz means “stern, grim”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Yavuz is used in Turkish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ja.ˈvuz/ for Yavuz.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 82 boys were recorded with the name Yavuz between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2011; its best national rank was #8,050 in 2011.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Yavuz?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,835
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yavuz 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yavuz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yavuzs were born

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

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
82
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.6% of all recorded uses (39).

Is Yavuz 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
+357
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2011 (10)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,050
2011

Spellings of Yavuz

Yavuz is not the most common spelling — Yaqub is, with 88.7% against Yavuz's 11.3%.

  • Yaqub88.7%642
  • Yavuz11.3%82

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 Yavuz is used

Across 1910–2025, Yavuz was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 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. Yavuz has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yavuz around the world

Where Yavuz 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
    2012–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1975–2025
    #2,249
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Yavuz by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,835
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#8,050
2011
Peak year
2011
10 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
82
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Yavuz

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

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Sibling names for Yavuz

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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