Nurşen
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Aydınlık, ışıklı ve mutlu, neşeli kimse
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nuɾʃen/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nurşen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 15K
- SYSyria≈1 in 53K
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
- 58 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈32,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nursen in SE Sweden, AZ Azerbaijan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Aydınlık, ışıklı ve mutlu, neşeli kimse.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nurşen 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: 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)
- Nursen Girginkoçb. 1939TRTurkish actor (born 1939)
- Devlet Devrimb. 1944TRnot in their usual nameTurkish actor (1944–2025)
- Nursen Yaprakb. 1999TRTurkish association football player (born 1999)
- Nurşen Alpagut KeskinTRTurkish entomologist
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 7 sources across 2 countries.
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 Nurşen?
- A machine transcription gives /nuɾʃen/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Nurşen mean?
- Recorded meaning: Aydınlık, ışıklı ve mutlu, neşeli kimse.
- Is Nurşen a male or female name?
- Nurşen 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.
- In which country does Nurşen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 32 thousand people named Nurşen in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nurşen.
- How common is the name Nurşen?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 38 people named Nurşen, about 1 in 268 thousand residents.
- How common is Nurşen compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Nurşen is the 465th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nurşen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nur%C5%9FenThe 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, “Nurşen” — the 465th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.