Entry № 7341 · Turkish origin

Nehir Nehir — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NEH-heer /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Turkish
Meaning
"River (Turkish)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Turkish)

A name that means "river (turkish)".

Nehir is the Turkish word for "river" — borrowed from Arabic nahr. A modern Turkish feminine name evoking flowing water.

Used widely in modern Turkey.

River. The Turkish.

The name in its native script.

Nehir
Transliteration
Nehir
Pronunciation
/ nəˈhɪər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nehir stands.

Nehir 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.

Nehirs before her.

Real people
Nehir Erdoğan
Turkish actress.
born 1980
In fiction
Nehir
Common in Turkish fiction.

Names connected to Nehir.

The number behind Nehir.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nehir reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.