Nurlan

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Нурлан in KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan, RU Russia and 8 more and Ნურლან in GE Georgia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

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◐

Nurlan is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name266 records spelled Nurlan3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, United States, Russia

  Also written Nūrlan, Nūrlān

32 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●

Nurlan 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, "Işıklan, ışık saç" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.

  as a word·TDK 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●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 9 years between 2012–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Nurlan Balgimbayevb. 1947KZKazakhstani politician (1947–2015)
• Nurlan Onschanowb. 1960KZKazakhstani diplomat
• Nurlan Mendygalievb. 1961RUKazakhstani water polo player
• Nurlan Nyghmatulinb. 1962KZKazakh politician
• Nurlan Dulatbekovb. 1962KZSoviet and Kazakh scientist
• Nurlan Yermekbayevb. 1963KZKazakhstani diplomat
• Nurlan Sauranbaevb. 1967KZKazakh politician
• Nurlan Koizhaiganovb. 1977KZOlympic wrestler
• Nurlan Koyanbaevb. 1979KZKazakh comedian, actor, producer, TV personality
• Nurlan Novruzovb. 1993AZAzerbaijani association football player (born 1993)

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 · 36 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Nurlan?

We estimate roughly 9.3 thousand people bear Nurlan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.

In which country does Nurlan have the most bearers?

Nurlan is most frequently recorded in Kyrgyzstan, where it is most often spelled нурлан.

How common is Nurlan compared with other names?

In Kyrgyzstan, Nurlan is the 15th most common given name of 140,295 given names recorded there.

Is Nurlan a male or female name?

Nurlan 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.