Vedat
A Turkish name meaning "love" and "friendship". In Poland it's carried by just over a hundred men, and no boys received it last year, so most Poles have never met one.
Vedat Pronunciation
What Vedat means
Where Vedat comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vedat is a name worn by Turkish men. Its origin sits outside Turkish, in the Arabic word wadād, which means love and warm affection. That older word handed Vedat its short meaning, love and friendship. The same root shows up in the Arabic name Widad, still given today.
Turkey knows the name from real people. Vedat Dalokay was an architect and served as mayor of Ankara in the 1970s. He designed the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad. The name is common enough to sit on a Turkish class register without comment. In Poland it is rare.
A clerk at the urząd might pause over the spelling before writing it on a form. The name stays short. Its meaning holds: wadād, love pointed toward friendship.
How many people are named Vedat
1 in 168080 men in Poland is named Vedat. 127 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2969 among male names.
Vedat as a middle name
Vedat is a first name for 127 men in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 97/3 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5848th, between Valenzuela (4) and Vehbi (4).
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#5846 Vadym4
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#5847 Valenzuela4
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#5848 Vedat4
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#5849 Vehbi4
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#5850 Veli̇4