Yavuz

Yavuz

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

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

Etymology

Old Turkic intervocalic or stem-final b, represented by bilabial w in Karakhanid and Khorezmian, 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 (1465–1520), 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 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 has surname Yavuz in his Turkish passport

See also

• Yavuz (battleship)
• Yavuz (drillship)