Given name & surname · also Turkish
Nihad
Nihad is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Nihad comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish نهاد (Nihâd), from Arabic نِهَاد.
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2010. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Nihad through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 5 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,335 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,335 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 743 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Nihad’s family of names
In Greek usage, Nihad is a transliteration of Νιχάντ.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Nihad
- Nihad ĐedovićBosnian basketball playerborn 1990
- Nihad HasanovićBosnian writer, translatorborn 1974
- Nihad Al BoushiSyrian soccer playerborn 1973
- Nihad AwadMuslim activistborn 1964
- Nihad SireesSyrian writerborn 1950
- Nihad HrustanbegovicBosnian-Dutch musicianborn 1973
- Nihad PejkovićBosnian association football playerborn 1968
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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