Yiğit is a boy's name of Turkish origin meaning “wight, brave one.” In England & Wales it was given to 6 boys in 2025.
Yiğit belongs to the Turkish tradition. Its meaning — “wight, brave one” — is the sense carried by its Turkish roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Yiğit first appears in Social Security records in 2004. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #8719 in 2015, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 70 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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Yiğit means “wight, brave one” in its Turkish roots. We check every meaning against published sources before it appears here.
Yiğit is a boy name. In England & Wales, 6 babies received the name in 2025.
Yiğit comes from the Turkish tradition.
Yiğit first appears in US records in 2004. Its best-ever ranking was #8719 in 2015, and 0 babies were given the name in 2024.
Yiğit is pronounced /jiɰit/ (IPA).
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. England & Wales figures are from the Office for National Statistics. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.
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