Mete
title: "Mete" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["turkish-masculine-given-names", "masculine-given-names"] topic_path: "geography/turkey" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mete" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Mete |
| gender | Masculine |
| language | Turkish |
| languageorigin | Turkish |
| origin | "mete" |
| derivation | "mete" |
| meaning | "brave", "galahad", "hero", "valiant", "gallant" |
| cognate | Bahadır |
| seealso | Baghatur |
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| name = Mete | image = | image_size = | caption = | pronunciation = | gender = Masculine | nameday = | language = Turkish | languageorigin = Turkish | origin = "mete" | derivation = "mete" | meaning = "brave", "galahad", "hero", "valiant", "gallant" | variant = | shortform = | petname = | cognate = Bahadır | anglicisation = | derivative = | seealso = Baghatur
Mete is a common masculine Turkish given name. In Turkish, "Mete" means "brave", "galahad", "hero", "valiant", and/or "gallant".
Mete is a deformed version of "Mo - du" which is the regional name of Modu Chanyu who was the founder of Xiongnu Empire. Appropriate Turkish reading of "Mo - du" is "Baghatur". Baghatur is also used as a masculine given name by Turkish people as Bahadır, Batur, and as in other cognate forms.
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People
Given name
- Ahmet Mete Işıkara (1941-2013), Turkish seismologist
- Mete Atatüre, Turkish physicist
- Mete Binay, Turkish weightlifter
- Mete Gazoz, Turkish recurve archer
- Mete Kīngi Paetahi, New Zealand politician
- Mete Özgencil, Turkish singer
- Halil Mete Soner, Turkish mathematician
Surname
- Caterina Mete (born 1980), Australian dancer
- Victor Mete (born 1998), Canadian ice hockey player
Fictional characters
- Mete Akarsu, in Öyle Bir Geçer Zaman ki (see Turkish Wikipedia article).
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