Nurlan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nurlan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kazakhstan than in any other country, where it is the 41st most common given name.
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 255(inferred from the name graph)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 398
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 9.3K
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 Nurlan 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.
- Kazakhstan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 255 (inferred from the name graph)
≈47,000 named Нурлан, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kyrgyzstan, 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 Нурлан in KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan, RU Russia and 1 more.
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)
"Işıklan, ışık saç" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nurlan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KZ Kazakhstan | #41 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 402 | 16K | Нурлан | 71 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #68 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 398 | 546 | Nurlan | 51 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #18 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 255 | — | Нурлан | 34 |
| RU Russia | #483 | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 15K | #386 | Нурлан | 131 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | listed | Нурлан | 14 |
| GE Georgia | #875 | 969as ნურლან | 1 in 4.1K | 969 | Nurlan | 14 |
| PL Poland | — | 369 | 1 in 104K | 369 | Nurlan | 11 |
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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; the uz-ismlarim register; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). 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)
Nurlan 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 Turkish, "Işıklan, ışık saç" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)
- Nurlan Balgimbayevb. 1947KZKazakhstani politician (1947–2015)
- Nurlan Onschanowb. 1960KZKazakhstani diplomat
- Nurlan Mendygalievb. 1961RUKazakhstani water polo player
- Nurlan Nyghmatulinb. 1962KZKazakh politician
- Nurlan Dulatbekovb. 1962KZSoviet and Kazakh scientist
- Nurlan Yermekbayevb. 1963KZKazakhstani diplomat
- Nurlan Sauranbaevb. 1967KZKazakh politician
- Nurlan Koizhaiganovb. 1977KZOlympic wrestler
- Nurlan Koyanbaevb. 1979KZKazakh comedian, actor, producer, TV personality
- Nurlan Novruzovb. 1993AZAzerbaijani association football player (born 1993)
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 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 546 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 369 | #859 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 320 | #901 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ismlarim.uz — Uzbek given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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
- Is Nurlan a male or female name?
- Nurlan 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.
- In which country does Nurlan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 47 thousand people named Нурлан in Kazakhstan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Nurlan?
- In Poland, the national register counted 369 people named Nurlan in 2026, about 1 in 104 thousand residents.
- How common is Nurlan compared with other names?
- In Kazakhstan, Nurlan is the 41st most common given name of 274,628 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nurlanThe 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, “Nurlan” — the 41st most common given name in Kazakhstan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.