Given name & surname · also Turkish
Nihat
Nihat is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in Turkish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Nihat 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.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
People named Nihat
- Nihat KahveciTurkish association football player (born 1979)
- Haluk BilginerTurkish actorborn 1954
- Nihat Erim13th Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey (1912–1980)
- Nihat ZeybekciTurkish statesperson (born 1961)
- Nihat BekdikTurkish athlete (1902–1972)
- Nihat HatipoğluTurkish academic (born 1955)
- Nihat ErgünTurkish statesperson (born 1962)
- Nihat AkbayTurkish association football player (1945–2020)
- Nihat ŞahinTurkish association football player (born 1989)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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