Given name & surname
Numan
Numan is a masculine given name from Arabic. It is used in Turkish.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1928. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Numan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 81
- 81 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,391 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,391 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 2006. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 415 as a first name in 2020; 516 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Numan
- Numan KurtulmuşSpeaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkeyborn 1959
- Numan AcarTurkish actor (born 1973)
- Numan ÇürüksuTurkish association football player (born 1984)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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