Yavuz


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

Etymology

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

Given name