Nurhan
given name · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nurhan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany. It appears chiefly in Turkish and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Işık saçan hükümdar.
- DEGermany1 in 39K◐
- ATAustria1 in 44K
- DKDenmark1 in 115K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈175 ●
- Sources
- 75 ●
- 1 in 115K ◐
across 7 countries
5.0K records
Official registry-verified
Denmark
Meaning & origin●
Işık saçan hükümdar.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | 3,084 | 3K rec. | — | listed | Nurhan | 75 |
| TR Türkiye | 663 | 711 rec. | — | — | Nurhan | 32 |
| AT Austria | 375 | 295 rec. | — | 15 | Nurhan | 19 |
| US United States | 375 | 444 rec. | — | listed | Nurhan | 49 |
| AU Australia | 119 | 117 rec. | — | — | Nurhan | 21 |
| MY Malaysia | 76 | 70 rec. | — | — | Nurhan | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | 60 | 51 rec. | 1 in 288K | 60 | Nurhan | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | 56 | 59 rec. | — | — | Nurhan | 16 |
| DK Denmark | 51 | — | 1 in 115K | 51 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 48△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 213K | 48 | — | 1 |
| SY Syria | 43 | 43 rec. | — | — | Nurhan | 3 |
| TM Turkmenistan | 22 | 22 rec. | — | — | Nurhan | 2 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Turkish211K94%
- German3.6K2%
- Arabic2.4K1%
- English1.3K1%
- French1.1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 210,570 | 94% |
| German | 3,622 | 2% |
| Arabic | 2,386 | 1% |
| English | 1,310 | 1% |
| French | 1,057 | 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●
Nurhan 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 (arab./türk. nur »Licht« + türk, han »Prinz«: »Lichtprinz«).
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 | 14 |
| 2000 | 14 |
| 2001 | 15 |
| 2002 | 15 |
| 2003 | 18 |
| 2004 | 20 |
| 2005 | 21 |
| 2006 | 20 |
| 2007 | 22 |
| 2008 | 23 |
| 2009 | 26 |
| 2010 | 27 |
| 2011 | 27 |
| 2012 | 30 |
| 2013 | 30 |
| 2014 | 32 |
| 2015 | 32 |
| 2016 | 33 |
| 2017 | 33 |
| 2018 | 36 |
| 2019 | 38 |
| 2020 | 38 |
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●
- Nurhan Nurb. 1930TRTurkish actor (1930–2017)
- Nurhan Atasoyb. 1934TRTurkish art historian (born 1934)
- Nurhan Damcioglub. 1941TRTurkish actor (1941–2023)
- Nurhan Karadağb. 1943TRTurkish university professor, director, actor and dramaturge
- Nurhan Tekerekb. 1959TRTurkish actor and director (born 1959)
- Nurhan Süleymanoğlub. 1971TRTurkish boxer (born 1971)
- Nurhan Çakmakb. 1981TRTurkish association football player (born 1981)
- Nurhan Boranbayevb. 2002KZbadminton player
- Nurkhan Toktasynovb. 2004KZnot in their usual namebadminton player
- Nurhan ŞekerciTRTurkish film producer
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 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 60 | #7,536 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 53 | #11,472 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 51 | #2,563 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 48 | #14,048 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 38 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 38 | — |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 36 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 36 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 33 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 33 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 32 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 32 | — |
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 · 83 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Nurhan?
- We estimate roughly 175 people bear Nurhan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Nurhan have the most bearers?
- Nurhan is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled nurhan.
- Is Nurhan a male or female name?
- Nurhan 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 Nurhan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Işık saçan hükümdar.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nurhan”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.