Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2022. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yildiz through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 15
- 0 boys · 15 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #17,200 for girls
- 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 girls, ranking No. 17,200 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 157 as a first name in 2020; 962 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.
Yildiz’s family of names
In English usage, Yildiz as a surname was borrowed from the Turkish form Yıldız. In Greek usage, Yildiz is a transliteration of Γιλντίζ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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