Nursel
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Işık seli, aydınlık seli
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nuɾsel/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nursel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 7.6K
- ATAustria≈1 in 36K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈47,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Işık seli, aydınlık seli.
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)
Nursel 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 | #462 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Nursel | 67 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 36K | 5 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | #608 | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Nursel | 7 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Nursel | 6 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 198K | — | Nursel | 2 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 105K | 7 | Nursel | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 40 | 1 in 255K | 40 | Nursel | 9 |
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nursel Duruelb. 1941TRTurkish journalist and writer (born 1941)
- Nursel Aydoğanb. 1958TRTurkish statesperson (born 1958)
- Nurseli İdizb. 1960TRnot in their usual nameTurkish actor (born 1960)
- Nursel Köseb. 1961TRTurkish-German actor and writer (born 1961)
- Nursel Reyhanlıoğlub. 1968TRTurkish statesperson (born 1968)
- Nursel Doğanb. 1974TRTurkish badminton player
- Nursel Aydoğmuşb. 1982TRTurkish badminton player (born 1982)
- Nursel Çakırb. 1985TRTurkish badminton player (born 1985)
- Nursel Özkanb. 1995TRTurkish association football player (born 1995)
- Nursel Cazagb. 1997TRTurkish association football player (born 1997)
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 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 40 | #15,774 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 32 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 32 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 31 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 31 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 31 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 30 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 30 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 30 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 30 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 27 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 26 | — |
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 Nursel?
- A machine transcription gives /nuɾsel/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Nursel mean?
- Recorded meaning: Işık seli, aydınlık seli.
- Is Nursel a male or female name?
- Nursel 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 Nursel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 47 thousand people named Nursel in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nursel.
- How common is the name Nursel?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 40 people named Nursel, about 1 in 255 thousand residents.
- How common is Nursel compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Nursel is the 462nd most common given name of 264,080 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/nurselThe 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, “Nursel” — the 462nd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.