Given name & surname
Yavuz
“a stern man”
Yavuz is used as a given name and a surname. One Turkish interpretation is “a stern man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Turkish interpretation is “a stern man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Turkish.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1996. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yavuz through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 82
- 82 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2011
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,839 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,839 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 2011. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 307 as a first name in 2020; 387 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.
People named Yavuz
- Yavuz BingölTurkish musician (born 1964)
- Yavuz Ali PashaOttoman grand vizier (1501–1604)
- Yavuz TurgulTurkish film director and screenwriter (born 1946)
- Yavuz EkinciTurkish writer (born 1979)
- Yavuz SelekmanTurkish actor and wrestler (1937–2004)
- Yavuz ÖzkanTurkish association football player (born 1985)
- Yavuz CanTurkish sprinter (born 1987)
- Yavuz Bülent BâkilerTurkish poet (1936–2025)
- Yavuz İlnamTurkish sport shooter (born 1987)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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