NEhir
given name · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
NEhir is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Kurdish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: river.
- TRTürkiye1 in 3.6K◐
- CYCyprus1 in 5.5K
- SESweden1 in 131K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈261 ●
- Sources
- 60 ●
- 1 in 131K ◐
across 8 countries
151K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin●
river
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 | #600 | 149,538 | 150K rec. | — | 2.5K | NEhir | 60 |
| CY Cyprus | #666 | 411 | 483 rec. | — | — | NEhir | 7 |
| SY Syria | — | 128 | 180 rec. | — | — | NEhir | 4 |
| US United States | — | 127 | 110 rec. | — | 6 | NEhir | 25 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 107 | 103 rec. | — | — | NEhir | 13 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 102 | 98 rec. | 1 in 169K | 102 | NEhir | 10 |
| BE Belgium | — | 97 | 109 rec. | — | 5 | NEhir | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | 78△ | 17 rec. | 1 in 131K | 78 | NEhir | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 53 | 54 rec. | — | 3 | NEhir | 2 |
| DK Denmark | — | 38 | — | 1 in 154K | 38 | — | — |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 26 | 31 rec. | — | — | NEhir | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 18 | — | 1 in 2.1M | 18 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Turkish145K93%
- Kurdish5.2K3%
- German1.4K1%
- English7371%
- French5071%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 144,880 | 93% |
| Kurdish | 5,235 | 3% |
| German | 1,400 | 1% |
| English | 737 | 1% |
| French | 507 | 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●
NEhir 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 Turkish, 1. Akarsu, ırmak. 2. Çok, bol, fazla.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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 |
|---|---|
| 2004 | 1 |
| 2005 | 6 |
| 2006 | 13 |
| 2007 | 11 |
| 2008 | 2 |
| 2009 | 5 |
| 2010 | 7 |
| 2011 | 6 |
| 2012 | 5 |
| 2013 | 3 |
| 2014 | 4 |
| 2015 | 8 |
| 2016 | 13 |
| 2017 | 14 |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2019 | 4 |
| 2020 | 14 |
| 2021 | 15 |
| 2022 | 3 |
| 2023 | 10 |
| 2024 | 5 |
AT Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) — 21 years between 2004–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Nehir Erdoğanb. 1980TRTurkish actor (born 1980)
- Nehir Babataşb. 1982TRTurkish television personality (born 1982)
- Nehir Yastib. 2002TRTurkish association football player (born 2002)
- Nehir Tokatb. 2005TRchess player
- Nehir Yasan AkTRTurkish academic and researcher
- Nehir SönmezTRTurkish researcher
- Nehir Samancıresearcher
- Nehir Özdemir ÖzgentürkTRTurkish 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 38 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2021 | 5.2K | #6 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2020 | 4.5K | #7 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2018 | 4.1K | #14 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2022 | 3.8K | #8 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2019 | 3.7K | #17 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2023 | 2.8K | #17 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2024 | 2.6K | #19 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2025 | 2.5K | #26 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 154 | #771 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 102 | #5,456 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 78 | #10,072 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 72 | #9,585 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 146 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name NEhir?
- We estimate roughly 261 people bear NEhir (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does NEhir have the most bearers?
- NEhir is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled NEhir.
- How common is NEhir compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, NEhir is the 600th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
- Is NEhir a male or female name?
- NEhir 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 NEhir mean?
- Recorded meaning: river
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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, “NEhir” — the 600th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.