Yavuz

Yavuz is a common masculine Turkish given name and in Turkish, "Yavuz" means "inflexible", "resolute" and "ferocious".

Yavuz

Gender	Male
Origin
Language(s)	Turkish
Meaning	inflexible, resolute, ferocious
Other names
Related names	Korkut

Etymology

Old Turkic intervocalic or stem-final b, represented by bilabial w in Karakhanid and Khorezmian Turkic, is changed to v. Thus Yavuz comes from Old Turkic: yabïz (𐰖𐰉𐰕), Old Uyghur: yabīz or yawīz, Khorerzmian: yawuz meaning "bad, vile".

Given name

• Selim I (1470–1520), nicknamed Yavuz, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
• Yavuz Ağralı (born 1992), Turkish long-distance runner
• Yavuz Ali Pasha (fl. 1601–1604), Ottoman statesman
• Yavuz Ataç, Turkish intelligence official
• Yavuz Çetin (1970–2001), Turkish musician
• Yavuz Eraydın (born 1976), Turkish footballer
• Yavuz Bingöl (born 1964), Turkish actor
• Yavuz Görey (1912-1995), Turkish sculptor
• Yavuz İlnam (born 1987), Turkish trap shooter
• Yavuz Karamollaoğlu (born 1980), Turkish karate practitioner
• Yavuz Mildon (born 1955), Turkish politician
• Yavuz Özkan (director) (1942–2019), Turkish film director
• Yavuz Özkan (footballer) (born 1985), Turkish footballer
• Yavuz Papağan (born 1987), Turkish para-archer
• Yavuz Şimşek (born 1947), Turkish footballer
• Yavuz Tatış (born 1947), Turkish businessman
• Yavuz Turgul (born 1946), Turkish film director and screenwriter
• Yavuz Yapıcıoğlu (born 1967), Turkish serial killer

Surname

• Birsen Yavuz (born 1980), Turkish sprinter
• Burak Yavuz (born 1975), Turkish volleyball player
• Ece Yağmur Yavuz (born 2004), Turkish female artistic gymnast
• Erdinç Yavuz (born 1978), Turkish footballer
• İbrahim Yavuz (born 1982), Turkish footballer
• Mahmut Yavuz (born 1982), Turkish navy officer and ultramarathon runner
• Yüksel Yavuz (born 1964), Turkish-born Kurdish film director
• Jay-Jay Okocha (born 1973) has surname Yavuz in his Turkish passport

See also

• Yavuz (battleship)
• Yavuz (drillship)