Nihan is a girl's name of Turkish origin meaning “secret.” In 2024 it was given to 26 girls in the United States.
Nihan at a glance
Gender
Girl name
Origin
Turkish
Meaning
“secret”
About the name Nihan
Nihan belongs to the Turkish tradition. Its meaning — “secret” — is the sense carried by its Turkish roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Nihan first appears in Social Security records in 2019. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #2648 in 2020, and in 2024 26 babies received the name — 188 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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