Mehmet
A Turkish name meaning "praised one", and a genuine rarity in Poland: most people here will never meet one. Barely 1,600 men carry it, though a handful of boys still get it each year and the trend points gently up.
Mehmet Pronunciation
Mehmet is pronounced MEKH-met (/ˈmɛxmɛt/).
What Mehmet means
Where Mehmet comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Mehmet is the Turkish form of Muhammad, the Arabic name that means "praised one." As the name moved into Turkish, the long Arabic vowels shortened and the consonants settled, and Muhammad became Mehmet. The Polish sense, godny pochwały, stays close to that root.
The most famous bearer ruled from Istanbul. Mehmet II, called Fatih, the Conqueror, took Constantinople in 1453 at the age of twenty-one. For centuries afterward the name stayed common among Ottoman sultans and ordinary families alike, and it remains one of the most frequently given men's names in Turkey today.
In a Polish school register, a Mehmet might sit a line above a Michał, the two names arriving from different languages. The name still means what it meant in Arabic. Praised one.
How many people are named Mehmet
1 in 12921 men in Poland is named Mehmet. 1,654 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #761 among male names.
Mehmet's popularity over time
3 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1301 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2020. Still the #761 name among living men, even as it slips to #1301 among newborns.
Mehmet as a middle name
Mehmet is a first name for 1,654 men in Poland and a middle name for another 89, a 95/5 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 764th, between Khaled (89) and Pankracy (89).
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#762 Humberto89
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#764 Mehmet89
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#765 Pankracy89
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