Naif
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Turkish: naive
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Naif is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 18K
- XKKosovo≈1 in 20K
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
- 32 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
naive
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Naif is read(measured from records)
Naif is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Turkish64%
naive
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic24%
exalted, lofty, eminent, superior
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
excess; surplus
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
exalted, distinguished; unique
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Naif 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Naif | 32 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 96K | listed | Naif | 24 |
| SY Syria | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Naif | 3 |
| PH Philippines | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 203K | — | Naif | 5 |
| US United States | 307 | 1 in 1.1M | 307 | Naif | 20 |
| SE Sweden | 147 | 1 in 69K | 147 | — | 4 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 41 | — | — |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 307 | #29,024 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 147 | #6,568 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 52 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 41 | #4,707 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1969 | 4 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1974 | 2 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1968 | 2 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1966 | 2 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1965 | 2 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1959 | 2 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1953 | 2 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Naif mean, and where does it come from?
- naive Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Naif a male or female name?
- Naif 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.
- In which country does Naif have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.6 thousand people named Naif in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled naif.
- How common is the name Naif?
- In the United States, the national register counted 307 people named Naif in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/naifThe 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, “Naif”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.