Ayhan
A Turkish name meaning "moon king". Fewer than 120 men in Poland carry it, and it is barely given now: most Poles have never met one.
Ayhan Pronunciation
Ayhan is pronounced ah-IH-khahn (/aˈɨxan/).
What Ayhan means
Where Ayhan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ayhan is Turkish, built from two plain words. Ay means moon. Han is the old title of a khan, a ruler who commands. Set side by side they give the short meaning that Polish name pages record for it: moon king, or księżycowy pan. This is the literal origin, not a sense attached later.
The name belongs to men across Turkey and the Balkans. One of them, the actor Ayhan Işık, became a fixture of Turkish cinema in the 1950s and stays a documented bearer worth naming. His surname, Işık, happens to mean light in Turkish, so moon and light met in one man's full name.
In a Polish class register Ayhan reads as foreign, filed among newer arrivals rather than under any saint's day. It carries no diminutive and no Polish variant. What holds firm is the pairing underneath the spelling: ay for the moon, han for the ruler who claims it.
How many people are named Ayhan
1 in 182446 men in Poland is named Ayhan. 117 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3120 among male names.
Ayhan as a middle name
Ayhan is a first name for 117 men in Poland and a middle name for another 14, an 89/11 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2481st, between Asad (14) and Ayobami (14).
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#2479 Antônio14
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#2480 Asad14
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#2481 Ayhan14
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#2482 Ayobami14
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#2483 Benno14