Entry № 7479 · Turkish origin

Nilufer Nilufer — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Turkish
Meaning
"The water lily"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "the water lily".

Nilufer is a name of Turkish origin, meaning the water lily, the lotus.

The water lily — a Turkish name.

The name in its native script.

Nilufer
Transliteration
Nilufer
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Nilufer stands.

Nilufer 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.

Nilufers before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Nilufer.

The number behind Nilufer.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nilufer reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.