Nurdan

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Işıktan oluşmuş, nurlu, ışıklı, parlak

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/nuɾdan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Nurdan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CYCyprus≈1 in 18K
  • KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 37K

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)

≈38,000 people, est.

Sources
76 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Turkish

Işıktan oluşmuş, nurlu, ışıklı, parlak.

Sources 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nurdan 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.

Where Nurdan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#587≈38,000 est.≈1 in 2.2K—Nurdan76
ID Indonesia—≈200 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Nurdan23
AT Austria—≈180 est.≈1 in 48K10——
KG Kyrgyzstan—≈160 est.≈1 in 37K—Nurdan5
BE Belgium—≈120 est.≈1 in 99K—Nurdan7
CY Cyprus—≈72 est.≈1 in 18K—Nurdan6
NL Netherlands—621 in 279K62Nurdan10
XK Kosovo—≈25 est.≈1 in 78K11—2

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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nurdan is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Türkiye, United States, Austria

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Nürdan, Nuerdan

  • Russian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Uzbek, Ukrainian

    Also written Нурдан

  • Bulgarian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Türkiye, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian

    Also written Нурдан

  • Kazakh surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia

    Languages: Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Russian

    Also written Нұрдан, Нурдан

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19401960198020002020Nurdan Şanlı, b. 1954Nurdan Gürbilek, b. 1956Nurdan Uzun, b. 1974Nurdan Karagöz, b. 1987Nurdan Torun, b. 1987Nurdan Adak, b. 2003

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)

InformalMerhaba Nurdan,Hi Nurdan, (English)

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 22 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Nurdan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—62#7,387
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—59#10,756
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—11#7,220
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)201510#1,852
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)19922—
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)19952#700
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)20021—
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)20151#3,220
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)19981—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)19971—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)19891—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)19851—

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • 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 Nurdan?
A machine transcription gives /nuɾdan/ (IPA) for Turkish.
Is Nurdan a male or female name?
Nurdan 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.
What does the name Nurdan mean?
Recorded meaning: Işıktan oluşmuş, nurlu, ışıklı, parlak.
In which country does Nurdan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 38 thousand people named Nurdan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nurdan.
How common is the name Nurdan?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 62 people named Nurdan, about 1 in 279 thousand residents.
How common is Nurdan compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Nurdan is the 587th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.

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The 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, “Nurdan” — the 587th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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