Nuran
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Nurlu, ışıklı, aydınlık
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nuran is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 905(inferred from the name graph)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 4.2K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 9.1K
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 Nuran 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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 905 (inferred from the name graph)
≈91,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Нуран in AZ Azerbaijan.
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)
Nurlu, ışıklı, aydınlık.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nuran 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 | #240 | ≈91,000 est. | ≈1 in 905 | #33 | Nuran | 85 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 391 | Нуран | 14 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Nuran | 2 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 23 | — | — |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Nuran | 11 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 360as Нуран | 1 in 5.9K | 360 | — | 4 |
| US United States | — | 223 | 1 in 1.5M | 189 | Nuran | 84 |
| CY Cyprus | #647 | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | — | Nuran | 8 |
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; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; State Statistical Office — living population names; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Nuran is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Esperanto, accusative singular of nura
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)
- Nuran Harirîb. 1931TRTurkish poet (born 1931)
- Nuran Aksoyb. 1944TRTurkish actor (1944–1987)
- Nuran Şahinb. 1948TRTurkish archaeologist (born 1948)
- Nuran Tezcanb. 1950TRTurkish academic (born 1950)
- Nuran Bayerb. 1954TRTurkish writer (born 1954)
- Nuran İmirb. 1977TRTurkish statesperson (born 1977)
- Nuran David Calisb. 1978DEGerman theater and film director
- Nuran Evren Şitb. 1980TRTurkish screenwriter (born 1980)
- Nuran Tutsakb. 1998TRTurkish basketball player (born 1998)
- Nuran TanrıverdiTRTurkish architect
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 25 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)
- 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
- What does the name Nuran mean?
- Recorded meaning: Nurlu, ışıklı, aydınlık.
- Is Nuran a male or female name?
- Nuran is a female 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 Nuran have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 91 thousand people named Nuran in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nuran.
- How common is the name Nuran?
- In the United States, the national register counted 223 people named Nuran in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
- How common is Nuran compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Nuran is the 240th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nuran?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nuranThe 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, “Nuran” — the 240th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.