Cihan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: universe (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: TÜİK NIP, 2025
/d͡ʒiˈhan/(recorded in a dictionary) Turkish · from Wiktionary
Cihan is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 2.2K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 2.2Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈78,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Cihan
- Turkish:/d͡ʒiˈhan/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)universe
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cihan 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 | #332 | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 2.2K | Cihan | 137 |
| SY Syria | #590 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Cihan | 6 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 67 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | #308 | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Cihan | 17 |
| FR France | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 114K | 495 | Cihan | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 436 | 1 in 40K | 424 | Cihan | 44 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 847 | Cihan | 8 |
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: TÜİK NIP — newborn names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); 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)Cihan 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, 1. Evren, âlem. 2. Dünya.
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)- Jahan Shahb. 1397TRnot in their usual nameThe third and greatest sultan of Qara Qoyunlu dynasty (1435–1467)
- Cihan İnanb. 1969CHTurkish-Swiss film director and screenwriter (born 1969)
- Cihan Çanakb. 2005BETurkish-Belgian 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)44 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cihan mean, and where does it come from?
- universe Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Cihan?
- In Turkish /d͡ʒiˈhan/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Cihan a male or female name?
- Cihan is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Türkiye (TÜİK NIP, 2025), Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice), France (INSEE, 2024) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB), among others.
- Which countries have the most people named Cihan?
- Mondonomo estimates about 78 thousand people named Cihan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cihan. After it come Syria, Austria, Cyprus and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Cihan?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 436 people named Cihan, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
- How common is Cihan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Cihan is the 332nd most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Cihan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cihanThe 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, “Cihan” — ranked 27th in Türkiye (TÜİK NIP). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.