Necla
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nedʒla/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Necla is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 870(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 7.3K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 5.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 870 (inferred from the name graph)
≈94,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Necla counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the tr-tuik-child-stats register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Necla Sultanb. 1926TROttoman noble (1926–2006)
- Necla Aratb. 1940TRTurkish statesperson (born 1940)
- Necla Purb. 1943TRTurkish academic (born 1943)
- Necla Nazırb. 1956TRTurkish actor (born 1956)
- Necla Kelekb. 1957TRTurco-German feminist and social scientist
- Neclâ Fideb. 1958TRTurkish actor (born 1958)
- Neclâ Akdoğanb. 1971TRTurkish association football player (born 1971)
- Necla Rüzgarb. 1972TRTurkish artist (born 1972)
- Necla Güçlü Esepaşab. 1974TRTurkish volleyball player (born 1974)
- Necla Güngörb. 1982TRTurkish association football coach (born 1982)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 64 | #11,559 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 50 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 50 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 50 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 49 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 48 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 48 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 48 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 47 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 47 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 47 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 45 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Necla?
- A machine transcription gives /nedʒla/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Necla a male or female name?
- Necla 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 are other forms of the name Necla?
- In the etymology graph, Nejla and Najla are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Necla have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 94 thousand people named Necla in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled necla.
- How common is the name Necla?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 64 people named Necla, about 1 in 159 thousand residents.
- How common is Necla compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Necla is the 218th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Necla?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/neclaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Necla” — the 218th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.