Nazmi

Meaning & origin●

Languages●

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◐

Nazmi is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Albanian given name11K records spelled Nazmi2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Albania, Kosovo, United States, Italy

  Also written Nåzmi

• Bulgarian given name3.8K records spelled Nazmi12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Türkiye

  Languages: Bulgarian, Macedonian, Croatian

  Also written Назми, Nаzмi, Názmí

• Hindi given name1.8K records spelled Nazmi2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Türkiye, Malaysia, United States

• Spanish given name1.2K records spelled Nazmi4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Malaysia, United States, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Näzmï, Naẓmī

• a separate given name522 records spelled Nazmi3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, Türkiye, Malaysia

  Also written Nazmî, Naẓmī

37 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.

Other recorded senses●

Nazmi is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• composer; poet

  as a name·Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

• In Arabic, arranger, organiser

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

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●

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 115 years between 1905–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Nazmi Ziya Güranb. 1881TRTurkish painter (1881–1937)
• Nazmi Yükselenb. 1926TRTurkish singer (1926–2015)
• Nazmi Barib. 1929TRTurkish tennis player (1929–2008)
• Nazmi Bilgeb. 1934TRTurkish association football player (1934–2013)
• Nazmi al-Jubehb. 1955ILPalestinian archaeologist and historian
• Nazmi Avlucab. 1976TRTurkish wrestler (born 1976)
• Nazmi Kırıkb. 1976TRTurkish actor of Kurdish ancestry (born 1976)
• Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmadb. 1982MYMalaysian politician
• Nazmi Albadawib. 1991USPalestinian soccer player
• Nazmi Faizb. 1994MYMalaysian footballer

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 255 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Nazmi?

We estimate roughly 2.8 thousand people bear Nazmi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Nazmi have the most bearers?

Nazmi is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled nazmi.

Where is Nazmi most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nazmi is densest in Albania — about 1 in 1.4 thousand people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.

How common is Nazmi compared with other names?

In Türkiye, Nazmi is the 417th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.

Is Nazmi a male or female name?

Nazmi 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 Nazmi mean?

Recorded meaning: 1. Nazımla, sözle, şiirle ilgili.