Given name & surname · also Turkish
Serdar
Serdar is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Classical Persian. It is used in Turkish and Turkmen.
Original Persianسردار
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Serdar comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Classical Persian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Turkmen usage, Serdar developed from سردار.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1988. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Serdar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1988
- 5 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 1988. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 419 as a first name in 2020; 279 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Serdar’s family of names
In Turkmen usage, Serdar developed from the Persian form سردار.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Serdar
- Serdar Berdimuhamedow3rd President of Turkmenistan since 2022born 1981
- Sardar AzmounIranian association football playerborn 1995
- Serdar TasciTurkish-German association football player (born 1987)
- Serdar DursunTurkish association football player (born 1991)
- Serdar OrtaçTurkish singer (born 1970)
- Serdar AzizTurkish association football player (born 1990)
- Serdar GözübüyükDutch association football refereeborn 1985
- Serdar ÖzkanTurkish association football player (born 1987)
- Serdar KurtuluşTurkish association football player (born 1987)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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