Nihad
given name · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Nihad is a given name, most frequently recorded in Azerbaijan. It appears chiefly in Arabic and Azerbaijani, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Of uncertain origin; perhaps from a word meaning both ‘high ground’ and ‘female breasts’.
- AZAzerbaijan1 in 1.1K◐
- KGKyrgyzstan1 in 14K
- SYSyria1 in 29K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.9K ●
- Sources
- 37 ●
- 1 in 5.7K ◐
across 12 countries
5.0K records
Official registry-verified
Slovenia
Meaning & origin●
Of uncertain origin; perhaps from a word meaning both ‘high ground’ and ‘female breasts’. _ Nihal @ ‘Those whose thirst is quenched’. Ni‘mat 2 ‘Boon’, ‘favour’, ‘blessing’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ Azerbaijan | #121 | 4,169 | 1.3K rec. | — | 1.4K | Nihad | 37 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 2,287 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Nihad | 19 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | 1,723 | 0 rec. | — | — | Nihad | 1 |
| SY Syria | — | 1,130 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Nihad | 4 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,092△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 46K | 1.1K | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 483△ | 53 rec. | 1 in 689K | 483 | Nihad | 25 |
| SE Sweden | — | 474△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 22K | 474 | — | 4 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 372△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 5.7K | 372 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 194△ | 25 rec. | 1 in 89K | 194 | Nihad | 6 |
| HR Croatia | — | 128 | — | 1 in 33K | 128 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 85 | — | 1 in 450K | 85 | — | — |
| IQ Iraq | — | 74 | 71 rec. | — | — | Nihad | 8 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Arabic12K24%
- Azerbaijani5.6K11%
- French4.6K9%
- Turkish3.9K8%
- English3.3K7%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 11,988 | 24% |
| Azerbaijani | 5,563 | 11% |
| French | 4,617 | 9% |
| Turkish | 3,851 | 8% |
| English | 3,311 | 7% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1998 | 8 |
| 1999 | 8 |
| 2000 | 8 |
| 2001 | 16 |
| 2002 | 12 |
| 2003 | 13 |
| 2004 | 11 |
| 2005 | 14 |
| 2006 | 19 |
| 2007 | 15 |
| 2008 | 17 |
| 2009 | 5 |
| 2010 | 14 |
| 2011 | 7 |
| 2012 | 6 |
| 2013 | 14 |
| 2014 | 13 |
| 2015 | 8 |
| 2016 | 11 |
| 2017 | 8 |
| 2018 | 6 |
| 2019 | 7 |
| 2020 | 8 |
BE Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) — 23 years between 1998–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ahmed Nihad Efendib. 1883TROttoman noble (1883–1954)
- Nihad Sami Banarlıb. 1907TRTurkish literary scholar and writer (1907–1974)
- Fairuzb. 1935LBnot in their usual nameLebanese singer and actress
- Nohad Salamehb. 1947FRnot in their usual nameFrench poet
- Nihād Sīrīsb. 1950SYSyrian writer
- Nihad Awadb. 1964USMuslim activist
- Nihad Al Boushib. 1973SYSyrian soccer player
- Nihad Hrustanbegovicb. 1973NLBosnian-Dutch musician
- Nihad Hasanovićb. 1974BABosnian writer, translator
- Nihad Đedovićb. 1990BABosnian basketball player
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 49 sources across 31 countries.
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 · 195 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Nihad?
- We estimate roughly 2.9 thousand people bear Nihad (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Nihad have the most bearers?
- Nihad is most frequently recorded in Azerbaijan, where it is most often spelled nihad.
- How common is Nihad compared with other names?
- In Azerbaijan, Nihad is the 121st most common given name of 28,867 given names recorded there.
- Is Nihad a male or female name?
- Nihad is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Nihad mean?
- Recorded meaning: Of uncertain origin; perhaps from a word meaning both ‘high ground’ and ‘female breasts’.
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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, “Nihad” — the 121st most common given name in Azerbaijan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.