Cihad
given name · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cihad is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Arabic, written in the Latin script.
- SYSyria1 in 3.7K◐
- TRTürkiye1 in 33K
- AZAzerbaijan1 in 38K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈71 ●
- Sources
- 54 ●
- 1 in 376K ◐
across 4 countries
26K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | — | 16,429 | 16K rec. | — | — | Cihad | 54 |
| SY Syria | #430 | 9,078 | 9.1K rec. | — | — | Cihad | 5 |
| IQ Iraq | — | 216 | 228 rec. | — | — | Cihad | 3 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | 116 | 6 rec. | — | 96 | Cihad | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 46 | 62 rec. | 1 in 376K | 46 | Cihad | 9 |
| BE Belgium | — | 34 | 34 rec. | — | — | Cihad | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 29 | 5 rec. | — | — | Cihad | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 24 | 22 rec. | — | — | Cihad | 6 |
| CY Cyprus | — | 24 | 27 rec. | — | — | Cihad | 5 |
| US United States | — | 21 | 19 rec. | — | — | Cihad | 13 |
| DK Denmark | — | 15 | — | 1 in 391K | 15 | — | — |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | 14 | 0 rec. | — | — | Cihad | 1 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Turkish19K67%
- Arabic5.8K20%
- German8943%
- English4151%
- Russian2921%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 19,039 | 67% |
| Arabic | 5,818 | 20% |
| German | 894 | 3% |
| English | 415 | 1% |
| Russian | 292 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Cihad is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Azerbaijani, holy war, jihad
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name●
- Cihat Armanb. 1915TRnot in their usual nameTurkish association football player and manager (1915–1994)
- Cihat Teğinb. 1915TRnot in their usual nameTurkish fencer (1915–?)
- Cihat Burakb. 1915TRnot in their usual nameTurkish writer (1915–1994)
- Cihat Bilgehanb. 1923TRnot in their usual nameTurkish statesperson (1923–1981)
- Cihat Tamerb. 1943TRnot in their usual nameTurkish actor (born 1943)
- Cihat Ünlüb. 1955TRnot in their usual nameTurkish gynecologist (born 1955)
- Hasan Cihat Örterb. 1958TRnot in their usual nameTurkish composer and musician (born 1958)
- Cihat Yaycıb. 1966TRnot in their usual nameTurkish military officer and statesperson (born 1966)
- Cihat Arslanb. 1970TRnot in their usual nameTurkish association football player (born 1970)
- Cihat Çelikb. 1996TRnot in their usual nameTurkish-Dutch association football player (born 1996)
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 10 sources across 6 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 16 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Cihad?
- We estimate roughly 71 people bear Cihad (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Cihad have the most bearers?
- Cihad is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled cihad.
- How common is Cihad compared with other names?
- In Syria, Cihad is the 430th most common given name of 109,868 given names recorded there.
- Is Cihad a male or female name?
- Cihad 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.
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About this data
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, “Cihad” — the 430th most common given name in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.