# Mehmet (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/mehmet/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Turkish |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 837 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 837 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,130, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

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

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 30 | 3,572 |
| 2012 | 28 | 3,772 |
| 2013 | 39 | 2,933 |
| 2014 | 34 | 3,282 |
| 2015 | 42 | 2,842 |
| 2016 | 35 | 3,271 |
| 2017 | 33 | 3,423 |
| 2018 | 32 | 3,491 |
| 2019 | 31 | 3,613 |
| 2020 | 14 | 6,184 |
| 2021 | 21 | 4,717 |
| 2022 | 22 | 4,647 |
| 2023 | 18 | 5,395 |
| 2024 | 23 | 4,518 |
| 2025 | 19 | 5,143 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 38 | 798 |
| 2012 | 33 | 901 |
| 2013 | 38 | 804 |
| 2014 | 49 | 680 |
| 2015 | 41 | 779 |
| 2016 | 37 | 858 |
| 2017 | 37 | 848 |
| 2018 | 39 | 810 |
| 2019 | 33 | 894 |
| 2020 | 42 | 755 |
| 2021 | 26 | 1,078 |
| 2022 | 32 | 949 |
| 2023 | 32 | 942 |
| 2024 | 35 | 898 |
| 2025 | 25 | 1,153 |

## People named Mehmet

- Mehmet Scholl, German association football player and manager
- Mehmet Hetemaj, Finnish footballer
- Mehmet I of Karaman, Bey of Karaman
- Mehmet Dragusha, Albanian association football player
- Mehmet Durakovic, Association football player and coach
- Mehmet Konica, Albanian politician
- Mehmed VI, 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1918–1922)
- Mehmed III, 13th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1595–1603)
- Mehmed I, fifth Ottoman Sultan (1413–1421)
- Mehmed IV, 19th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1648–1687)
- Mehmed V, 35th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1909–1918)
- Şükrü Saracoğlu, 5th Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey (1887–1953)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.