Ceyhun

given name · Turkish · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ceyhun is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. In Azerbaijan it is the 61st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Azerbaijani, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Tevrat'a göre cennetin dört nehrinden biri.

rarermore common
  • AZAzerbaijan1 in 651
  • TMTurkmenistan1 in 2.3K
  • KGKyrgyzstan1 in 5K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈350

across 5 countries

2

recorded for this name

Sources
98

73K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 134K

Netherlands

Spellings & scripts

CeyhunLatin · Turkish52K records
ДжейхунCyrillic · Russian15K records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Джейхун in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 3 more and Jeyhun in TM Turkmenistan, PL Poland, FR France and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

recorded in Turkish

Tevrat'a göre cennetin dört nehrinden biri.

Sources 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ceyhun is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye51,93654K rec.Ceyhun91
RU Russia12,23711K rec.Джейхун98
AZ Azerbaijan#616,7782.3K rec.161Ceyhun48
KG Kyrgyzstan#7124,7162 rec.Ceyhun4
TM Turkmenistan#3582,4412.5K rec.Jeyhun7
DE Germany1,2841.3K rec.listedCeyhun73
UA Ukraine9421.1K rec.Джейхун16
US United States539539 rec.Ceyhun82
GB United Kingdom20991 rec.Ceyhun27
AT Austria14666 rec.22Ceyhun17
BE Belgium134136 rec.Ceyhun13
CY Cyprus134190 rec.Ceyhun11

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Languages

  • Turkish52K77%
  • Azerbaijani5.5K8%
  • English1.6K2%
  • German1.6K2%
  • Russian1.1K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish51,77877%
Azerbaijani5,5358%
English1,5792%
German1,5632%
Russian1,1362%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way

Ceyhun is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name1.3K records spelled Ceyhun5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Céyhun

  • Italian given name76 records spelled Ceyhun2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Céyhun

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time

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Ceyhun in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2003–2020
Yearrecords
200310
200411
200511
200611
200714
200814
200917
201018
201117
201217
201317
201415
201515
201616
201716
201818
201920
202022

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)18 years between 2003–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name

190019201940196019802000Ceyhun Atuf Kansu, b. 1919Ceyhun Tanrıverdiyev, b. 1973Ceyhun Yılmaz, b. 1976Ceyhun Eriş, b. 1977Ceyhun Gen, b. 1977Ceyhun Sultanov, b. 1979Ceyhun Fersoy, b. 1982Ceyhun Altay, b. 1986Ceyhun Gülselam, b. 1987Ceyhun Yazar, b. 1992

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence

Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Ceyhun
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AZ AzerbaijanAzerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics161
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)129#3,794
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)109#7,646
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)31#18,618
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202622#5,965
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202022
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)201822#1,764
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)20#26,210
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)20#24,621
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201920
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)19#6,100
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201818

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 57 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ceyhun?
We estimate roughly 350 people bear Ceyhun (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Ceyhun have the most bearers?
Ceyhun is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled ceyhun.
How common is Ceyhun compared with other names?
In Azerbaijan, Ceyhun is the 61st most common given name of 28,867 given names recorded there.
Is Ceyhun a male or female name?
Ceyhun is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Ceyhun mean?
Recorded meaning: Tevrat'a göre cennetin dört nehrinden biri.
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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ceyhun” — the 61st most common given name in Azerbaijan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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