Is Mehmet a male or female name?
Mehmet is predominantly associated with male records in the available name data. Without a country hint, NameGender returns male at 100%, based on 13,208 observations.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- male
- Probability
- 100%
- Sample size
- 13,208
- Confidence
- high
Mehmet by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland CH | male | 100% | 3,890 | bfs |
| France FR | male | 100% | 3,775 | insee |
| Poland PL | male | 100% | 1,808 | pesel |
| England and Wales GB | male | 100% | 1,136 | ons |
| Austria AT | male | 100% | 1,102 | statat |
| United States US | male | 100% | 815 | ssa |
| Norway NO | male | 100% | 532 | ssb |
| Canada CA | male | 100% | 150 | statcan |
Attested in 16 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AL · AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · ES · FR · GB · KS · MK · NO · PL · SE · TR · US
Mehmet over time
In the United States, 0% of the babies named Mehmet in the 1990s were girls, against 0% in the 2010s. In France, 0% of the babies named Mehmet in the 1970s were girls, against 0% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | — | 0% | 260 | |
| 1980s | — | 0% | 640 | |
| 1990s | 0% | 107 | 0% | 815 |
| 2000s | 0% | 208 | 0% | 970 |
| 2010s | 0% | 334 | 0% | 830 |
| 2020s | — | 0% | 260 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Mehmet with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Mehmet&country=CH" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Mehmet
Is Mehmet a male or female name?
Mehmet is predominantly associated with male records in the available name data. Without a country hint, NameGender returns male at 100%, based on 13,208 observations.
Why can the result for Mehmet change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Mehmet identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.