Yavuz
A Turkish name meaning "resolute, ferocious". Fewer than 70 men in Poland carry it and no boys have been given it in years, so meeting one would stay with you.
Yavuz Pronunciation
What Yavuz means
Where Yavuz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yavuz comes from Turkish, where it means resolute and ferocious. In Polish the sense lands as silny, mocny. The word describes a person hard to move and harder to frighten.
The name reached history through Selim I, the Ottoman sultan who ruled from 1512 to 1520. His people called him Yavuz, an epithet for the stern and the unbending. English writers usually render it as Selim the Grim. A twentieth-century Turkish warship later carried the same name.
For a boy on a Polish class register today, Yavuz reads as plainly Turkish. Yavuz has no diminutive here. It has no Polish variant and no name-day on the calendar. What stays is the meaning: strong, forceful, slow to yield.
How many people are named Yavuz
1 in 313915 men in Poland is named Yavuz. 68 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4414 among male names.
Yavuz as a middle name
Yavuz is a first name for 68 men in Poland and a middle name for another 17, an 80/20 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2275th, between Yacine (17) and Yunus (17).
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#2273 Xander17
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#2274 Yacine17
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#2275 Yavuz17
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#2276 Yunus17
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#2277 Ziad17