Nihad
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Of uncertain origin; perhaps from a word meaning both ‘high ground’ and ‘female breasts’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɲihæd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nihad is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 5.7K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 22K
- HRCroatia1 in 33K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)
1,092 people
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
Nihad 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 1,092 | 1 in 46K | 1.1K | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 743 | 1 in 448K | 483 | Nihad | 24 |
| SE Sweden | — | 474 | 1 in 22K | 474 | — | 4 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 372 | 1 in 5.7K | 372 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 212 | 1 in 82K | 194 | Nihad | 6 |
| HR Croatia | — | 128 | 1 in 33K | 128 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 76 | 1 in 77K | 69 | — | — |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #283 | — | — | 1.4K | Nihad | 47 |
1,092 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- 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).
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 52 sources across 31 countries.
Reference works 5
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Nihad?
- A machine transcription gives /ɲihæd/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Where does the name Nihad come from?
- 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’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- 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’.
- In which country does Nihad have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Nihad, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nihad most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nihad is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 5.7 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nihad?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,092 people named Nihad, about 1 in 46 thousand residents.
- How common is Nihad compared with other names?
- In Azerbaijan, Nihad is the 283rd most common given name of 28,848 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nihadThe 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, “Nihad” — the 283rd most common given name in Azerbaijan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.