Berfi̇n
A Turkish name meaning "snowdrop", the flower. Fewer than three dozen women in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet a Berfin.
Berfi̇n Pronunciation
Berfi̇n is pronounced BERFİN (/bɛrfi̇n/).
What Berfi̇n means
Where Berfi̇n comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Berfin comes to Turkey from Kurdish, where the root berf means snow. The name belongs to a small white flower, the snowdrop, one of the first blooms to push up while frost still holds the ground. So the meaning sits close to the origin here. Snow gives the word, and the flower gives the name its picture.
The grounding lists no diminutives and no variants. Berfin stands alone, without a shortened pet form to soften it.
In Turkish usage the name reads as a girls' name, and it spread widely among Kurdish families in the country's southeast. A teacher reading a class register in Diyarbakır will not blink at it. The snowdrop, Galanthus, flowers in late winter across Anatolia and much of Europe, which keeps the meaning checkable rather than sentimental.
Berfin means snowdrop. In Polish that lands as śnieg, snow, the same cold root that grew the Kurdish word.
How many people are named Berfi̇n
1 in 663054 women in Poland is named Berfi̇n. 34 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6822 among female names.
Berfi̇n as a middle name
Berfi̇n is a first name for 34 women in Poland and a middle name for another 12, a 74/26 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2138th, between Bell (12) and Bożentyna (12).
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#2136 Bazylia12
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#2137 Bell12
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#2138 Berfin12
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#2139 Bożentyna12
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#2140 Burcu12