Nurhan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Işık saçan hükümdar
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nuɾhan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nurhan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 95K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 213K
- NLNetherlands1 in 288K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- 1 in 95K (inferred from the name graph)
62 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Işık saçan hükümdar.
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)
Nurhan 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.
62 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SURS — resident population given names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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)
Nurhan 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 German, weibl. Vom. türkischer Herkunft (arab./türk. nur »Licht« + türk, han »Prinz«: »Lichtprinz«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Nurhan Nurb. 1930TRTurkish actor (1930–2017)
- Nurhan Atasoyb. 1934TRTurkish art historian (born 1934)
- Nurhan Damcioglub. 1941TRTurkish actor (1941–2023)
- Nurhan Karadağb. 1943TRTurkish university professor, director, actor and dramaturge
- Nurhan Tekerekb. 1959TRTurkish actor and director (born 1959)
- Nurhan Süleymanoğlub. 1971TRTurkish boxer (born 1971)
- Nurhan Çakmakb. 1981TRTurkish association football player (born 1981)
- Nurhan Boranbayevb. 2002KZbadminton player
- Nurkhan Toktasynovb. 2004KZnot in their usual namebadminton player
- Nurhan ŞekerciTRTurkish film producer
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 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 60 | #7,536 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 53 | #11,472 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 51 | #2,563 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 48 | #14,048 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 38 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 38 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 36 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 33 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 33 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 32 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 32 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #13,638 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Nurhan?
- A machine transcription gives /nuɾhan/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Nurhan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Işık saçan hükümdar.
- Is Nurhan a male or female name?
- Nurhan 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 Nurhan have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 62 people named Nurhan, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nurhan most common?
- Nurhan is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 95 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nurhan?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 62 people named Nurhan, about 1 in 95 thousand 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/nurhanThe 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, “Nurhan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.