Ceyhun
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Tevrat'a göre cennetin dört nehrinden biri
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Stadt München Open Data, 2017
/d͡ʒɛjhˈʊn/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Ceyhun is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Azerbaijan than in any other country, where it is the 77th most common given name.
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 420(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 5.3K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 6Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ceyhun itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Azerbaijan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 415 (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, 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 Джейхун in RU Russia and Jeyhun in TM Turkmenistan.
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)Tevrat'a göre cennetin dört nehrinden biri.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ceyhun 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ Azerbaijan | #77 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 415 | 161 | Ceyhun | 57 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Ceyhun | 102 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #329 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Jeyhun | 8 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Джейхун | 108 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 209K | listed | Ceyhun | 77 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Ceyhun | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 129 | 1 in 134K | 129 | Ceyhun | 16 |
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; the de-munich-vornamen register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)- Ceyhun Atuf Kansub. 1919TRTurkish physician (1919–1978)
- Ceyhun Yılmazb. 1976TRTurkish actor (born 1976)
- Ceyhun Fersoyb. 1982TRTurkish actor (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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ceyhun?
- It depends on the language: in Turkish /d͡ʒɛjhˈʊn/; in Azerbaijani /d͡ʒejhˈun/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Ceyhun a male or female name?
- Ceyhun is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- What does the name Ceyhun mean?
- Recorded meaning: Tevrat'a göre cennetin dört nehrinden biri.
- Which countries have the most people named Ceyhun?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Ceyhun in Azerbaijan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ceyhun. After it come Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Russia and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ceyhun?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 129 people named Ceyhun, about 1 in 134 thousand residents.
- How common is Ceyhun compared with other names?
- In Azerbaijan, Ceyhun is the 77th 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/ceyhunThe 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, “Ceyhun” — the 77th most common given name in Azerbaijan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.