Semiha
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Cömert, eli açık
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/s̪emiha/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Semiha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 14K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 11K
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)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈60,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Cömert, eli açık.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Semiha 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 | #351 | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | #91 | Semiha | 68 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Semiha | 3 |
| AL Albania | — | 270 | 1 in 11K | 270 | — | — |
| AT Austria | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 20 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 56K | 6 | Semiha | 12 |
| CY Cyprus | #722 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Semiha | 6 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 51 | — | 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: Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Semiha 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 umb, cup, bleed by cupping
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
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)
- Semiha Berksoyb. 1910TRTurkish opera singer (1910–2004)
- Semih Sancarb. 1911TRnot in their usual nameTurkish general and statesperson (1911–1984)
- Semiha Borovacb. 1955BABosniak politician
- Semiha Yankıb. 1958TRTurkish singer (born 1958)
- Semih Kaplanoğlub. 1963TRnot in their usual nameTurkish film director and producer (born 1963)
- Semih Saygınerb. 1964TRnot in their usual nameTurkish pool player (born 1964)
- Semih Şentürkb. 1983TRnot in their usual nameTurkish association football player (born 1983)
- Semih Erdenb. 1986TRnot in their usual nameTurkish basketball player (born 1986)
- Semih Kayab. 1991TRnot in their usual nameTurkish association football player (born 1991)
- Semih Kılıçsoyb. 2005TRnot in their usual nameTurkish association football player (born 2005)
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 27 sources across 16 countries.
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 Semiha?
- A machine transcription gives /s̪emiha/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Semiha a male or female name?
- Semiha 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 Semiha mean?
- Recorded meaning: Cömert, eli açık.
- In which country does Semiha have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 60 thousand people named Semiha in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled semiha.
- How common is the name Semiha?
- In Albania, the national register counted 270 people named Semiha, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Semiha compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Semiha is the 351st 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/semihaThe 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, “Semiha” — the 351st most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.