Numan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Kan. 2. Gelincik
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/numˈan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Numan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 6.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 3Kas Norman
- PKPakistan≈1 in 4.4K
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 Numan 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
109,382 named Norman, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, 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 Norman in US United States.
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)
1. Kan. 2. Gelincik.
Sources 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)
Numan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 109,382as Norman | 1 in 3K | 109K | Norman | 89 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | listed | Numan | 43 |
| TR Türkiye | #862 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Numan | 90 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1,874as Norman | 1 in 2.7K | 1.9K | — | — |
| EC Ecuador | — | 1,627as Norman | 1 in 10K | 1.6K | — | 1 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 489 | 1 in 59K | 489 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 207as Norman | 1 in 3.6K | 207 | — | — |
109,382 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry names; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Numan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, (nu‘maan) "Blood; name of the kings of Hirah in Arabia, especially of the last, Nu‘man bin Munzir; also surname of the celebrated lawyer Abu Hanifa."*° Abu Abdullah an-Nu‘man_ bin Bashir: a sahaabi.”©’
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, Blood; name of the king of Hirah in Arabia; also a sahabi (AS)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In English, A local government area of Adamawa State, Nigeria.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Numan Ustab. 1885TRTurkish statesperson (1885–1934)
- Numan Menemencioğlub. 1893TRTurkish diplomat and statesperson (1893–1958)
- Nol Oyevaarb. 1922NLnot in their usual nameDutch architect (1922–2006)
- Numan Esinb. 1929TRTurkish statesperson (1929–2020)
- Numan Hazarb. 1945TRTurkish politician and diplomat
- Numan Kurtulmuşb. 1959TRSpeaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
- Numan Acarb. 1974TRTurkish actor (born 1973)
- Numan Çürüksub. 1984TRTurkish association football player (born 1984)
- Numan Özkanb. 1987TRTurkish badminton player (born 1987)
- Numan Bostanb. 1998FRTurkish-French association football player (born 1998)
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 59 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 489 | #2,708 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 410 | #23,544 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 13 | #7,500 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 7 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5 | #23,544 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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 Numan?
- A machine transcription gives /numˈan/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Numan a male or female name?
- Numan 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.
- What does the name Numan mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Kan. 2. Gelincik.
- In which country does Numan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 109 thousand people named Norman, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Numan?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 489 people named Numan, about 1 in 59 thousand residents.
- How common is Numan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Numan is the 862nd most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Numan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/numanThe 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, “Numan” — the 862nd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.