Nurten
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Teni berrak, ışıklı, aydınlık olan
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries
/nuɾten/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Nurten is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 740(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 1.9Kfew records
- XKKosovo≈1 in 14K
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)
- Record sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 742 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Teni berrak, ışıklı, aydınlık olan.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nurten 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 | #175 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 742 | register #99 | Nurten | 72 |
| CY Cyprus | #197 | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Nurten | 8 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 9 | — | — |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 42K | listed | Nurten | 5 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Nurten | 7 |
| US United States | — | 145 | 1 in 2.3M | 142 | Nurten | 77 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 91 | — | 3 |
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; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Nurten Yilmazb. 1957TRTurkish-Austrian politician (born 1957)
- Nurten Karislib. 1971NLTurkish politician from the Netherlands
- Nurten Mermerb. 1995TRTurkish athlete (born 1995)
- Nurten Yalçınkayab. 2000TRTurkish taekwondoin (born 2000)
- Nurten AkarsuTRTurkish researcher
- Nurten YiğitTRTurkish researcher
- Nurten BahtiyarTRTurkish researcher
- Nurten Gizem TöreTRTurkish researcher
- Nurten Bayrak GürsesTRTurkish academic
- Nurten HatırnazTRTurkish writer and translator
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
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 Nurten?
- In Turkish /nuɾten/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Nurten a male or female name?
- Nurten is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Norway (SSB).
- What does the name Nurten mean?
- Recorded meaning: Teni berrak, ışıklı, aydınlık olan.
- In which country does Nurten have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 115 thousand people named Nurten in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nurten.
- How common is the name Nurten?
- In the United States, the national register counted 145 people named Nurten in 2020, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
- How common is Nurten compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Nurten is the 175th 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/nurtenThe 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, “Nurten” — the 175th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.