Given name & surname · also Turkish
Ekrem
Ekrem is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in French and Turkish.
Original Arabicأَكْرَم
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Ekrem comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish اكرم (Ekrem), from Arabic أَكْرَم; its root is Arabic ك ر م.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2009. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ekrem through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 45
- 45 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2010. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 347 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ekrem’s family of names
In Turkish usage, Ekrem has a conventional equivalent in the Arabic form أَكْرَم. In Turkish usage, Ekrem has a conventional equivalent in the Arabic form أَكْرَمُ. In Turkish usage, Ekrem has a conventional equivalent in the Ottoman Turkish form اكرم.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ekrem
- Ekrem İmamoğluTurkish politician and 7th mayor of Istanbulborn 1971
- Ekrem AkurgalTurkish archaeologist (1911–2002)
- Ekrem LibohovaAlbanian politician (1882-1948)
- Ekrem BoraTurkish actor (1932–2012)
- Eqrem VloraAlbanian politician (1885–1964)
- Eko FreshTurkish-German rapper and actorborn 1983
- Ekrem DağTurkish association football player (born 1980)
- Ekrem ÖztürkTurkish wrestler (born 1997)
- Ekrem JevrićMontenegrin singer (1961-2016)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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