Entry № 4390 · Turkish origin

Hürrem Hürrem — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HUR-rem /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Turkish
Meaning
"Joyful / cheerful (Ottoman queen Roxelana)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Turkish)

A name that means "joyful / cheerful (ottoman queen roxelana)".

Hürrem is from the Persian khurram (joyful, cheerful) — adopted into Ottoman Turkish. Hürrem Sultan (Roxelana, c. Princess Hürrem — modern Turkish royal naming.

Joyful / cheerful.

The name in its native script.

خرم
Transliteration
Hürrem
Pronunciation
/ ˈhʊr.rɛm /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hürrem stands.

Hürrem does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Hürrems before her.

Real people
Hürrem Sultan (Roxelana)
Ottoman queen + Sultanate of Women.
c. 1502 – 1558
In fiction
Hürrem (Magnificent Century)
Turkish drama 2011-14.
2011

Names connected to Hürrem.

The number behind Hürrem.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hürrem reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.