Nefise
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Herkes tarafından beğenilen, çok güzel (TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary))
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries
/nefˈisɛ/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Nefise is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- XKKosovo≈1 in 2.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 3.3K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 7.8Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈26,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Nefise
- Turkish:/nefˈisɛ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Herkes tarafından beğenilen, çok güzel.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nefise 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 | #592 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Nefise | 46 |
| AF Afghanistan | #714 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Nefise | 2 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 501 | — | 1 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Nefise | 3 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Nefise | 3 |
| CY Cyprus | #822 | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Nefise | 11 |
| MK North Macedonia | #328 | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Nefise | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 55 | 1 in 314K | 55 | Nefise | 9 |
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: ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); 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)- Nefise Özkal Lorentzenb. 1964TRTurkish-Norwegian film director (born 1964)
- Özlem Aydukb. 1969TRnot in their usual nameTurkish psychologist and political scientist
- Nefise Karatayb. 1976TRTurkish actor (born 1976)
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Nefise?
- In Turkish /nefˈisɛ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Nefise a male or female name?
- Nefise is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Kosovo (ASK Kosovo).
- What does the name Nefise mean?
- Recorded meaning: Herkes tarafından beğenilen, çok güzel.
- Which countries have the most people named Nefise?
- Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Nefise in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nefise. After it come Afghanistan, Kosovo, Uzbekistan and Syria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Nefise?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 55 people named Nefise, about 1 in 314 thousand residents.
- How common is Nefise compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Nefise is the 592nd most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nefise?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nefiseThe 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, “Nefise” — the 592nd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.