Double name · Boy
Yunus Emre name meaning
“a dove and a devoted friend”
17,089 babies in TÜİK newborn lists
What does Yunus Emre mean?
Yunus reached Turkish through Arabic from a Hebrew root, while Emre is Turkish in origin. The full name recalls Yunus Emre, the poet who lived in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.
How popular is Yunus Emre?
Official figures: TÜİK newborn name lists (2018–2025, the top 30 for Türkiye and each of the 81 provinces every year) and the most common names in the population.
- Best rank
- 20.2018
- Trend (2018–2025)
- last listed in 2021
- Province lists
- 78provinces
Babies named Yunus Emre each year
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| Year | Boys | |
|---|---|---|
| Rank | Babies | |
| 2018 | 20 | 3,579 |
| 2019 | 25 | 3,049 |
| 2020 | 21 | 3,002 |
| 2021 | 26 | 2,632 |
| 2022 | – | – |
| 2023 | – | – |
| 2024 | – | – |
| 2025 | – | – |
In the missing years the name was outside the national top 30.
Where is Yunus Emre in the top 30?
78 provinces · the latest year each province listed it
Source: TurkStat (TÜİK), Address-Based Population Registration System. The lists cover the top 30 names per year, sex and province; no official counts are published for less common names. All statistics →