Ilknur
given name · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ilknur is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. It appears chiefly in Turkish and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: İlk doğan kız çocuklara verilen adlardan biri.
- TRTürkiye1 in 1.3K◐
- CYCyprus1 in 4.8K
- AZAzerbaijan1 in 7.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈501 ●
- Sources
- 55 ●
- 1 in 72K ◐
across 9 countries
440K records
Official registry-verified
Denmark
Meaning & origin●
İlk doğan kız çocuklara verilen adlardan biri.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 2 languages 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 | #236 | 417,999 | 438K rec. | — | #90 | Ilknur | 55 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #911 | 570 | 44 rec. | — | 451 | Ilknur | 6 |
| CY Cyprus | #585 | 472 | 532 rec. | — | — | Ilknur | 7 |
| BE Belgium | — | 462 | 458 rec. | — | 5 | Ilknur | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 157 | 601 rec. | 1 in 110K | 157 | Ilknur | 7 |
| US United States | — | 147 | 186 rec. | 1 in 2.3M | 147 | Ilknur | 20 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 145 | 141 rec. | — | — | Ilknur | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 119 | 107 rec. | — | — | Ilknur | 12 |
| DK Denmark | — | 81 | — | 1 in 72K | 81 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 76 | 42 rec. | 1 in 134K | 76 | Ilknur | 3 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | 56 | 6 rec. | — | — | Ilknur | 2 |
| GR Greece | — | 26 | 30 rec. | — | — | Ilknur | 6 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Turkish419K96%
- German8.3K2%
- French2.5K1%
- English1.9K1%
- Azerbaijani5741%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 418,883 | 96% |
| German | 8,334 | 2% |
| French | 2,540 | 1% |
| English | 1,855 | 1% |
| Azerbaijani | 574 | 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●
Ilknur 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 German, weibl. Vom. türkischer Herkunft (türk. ilk »erster, erste, erstes« + arab./türk. nur »Licht«: »erstes Licht«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 38 |
| 2000 | 38 |
| 2001 | 37 |
| 2002 | 37 |
| 2003 | 37 |
| 2004 | 40 |
| 2005 | 40 |
| 2006 | 41 |
| 2007 | 44 |
| 2008 | 45 |
| 2009 | 51 |
| 2010 | 53 |
| 2011 | 53 |
| 2012 | 54 |
| 2013 | 56 |
| 2014 | 57 |
| 2015 | 58 |
| 2016 | 58 |
| 2017 | 59 |
| 2018 | 62 |
| 2019 | 62 |
| 2020 | 66 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- İlknur Akdoğanb. 1969TRTurkish sailor (born 1969)
- İlknur Boyrazb. 1970TRTurkish actor (born 1970)
- İlknur Bozkurtb. 1971TRTurkish actor (born 1971)
- İlknur Bahadırb. 1972TRTurkish-German actor (born 1972)
- İlknur Taşb. 1973TRTurkish Hittitologist (born 1973)
- İlknur İnceözb. 1973TRTurkish statesperson (born 1973)
- İlknur Kobaşb. 1977TRTurkish judoka (born 1977)
- İlknur Melis Durasıb. 1989TRTurkish fashion model (born 1989)
- İlknur HoşTRTurkish researcher
- İlknur KeskinTRTurkish researcher
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 26 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 451 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 157 | #4,187 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 150 | #6,412 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 147 | #45,829 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 104 | #7,566 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 81 | #1,861 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 76 | #10,258 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 66 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 62 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 62 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 59 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 58 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 104 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ilknur?
- We estimate roughly 501 people bear Ilknur (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ilknur have the most bearers?
- Ilknur is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled ilknur.
- How common is Ilknur compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Ilknur is the 236th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
- Is Ilknur a male or female name?
- Ilknur is a female 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 Ilknur mean?
- Recorded meaning: İlk doğan kız çocuklara verilen adlardan biri.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ilknur” — the 236th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.