Bülent
A Turkish name meaning "high, tall, lofty". Only about 90 men in Poland carry it, and none were born last year, so most Poles will never meet one.
Bülent Pronunciation
Bülent is pronounced BÜLENT (/bülɛnt/).
What Bülent means
Where Bülent comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bülent means high, tall, lofty. The Turkish name goes back to the Persian adjective boland, which described anything raised up or elevated. It worked as a plain word first, and only later settled on people as a name.
One bearer fixes its reputation. Bülent Ecevit led Turkey as prime minister four times and also published poetry, including Turkish translations of T.S. Eliot. The singer Bülent Ersoy carried it into Turkish music. The name stayed masculine, with no diminutive or variant attached to it.
In Poland the name is rare. A child called Bülent might be the only such entry on a school register, and the Polish calendar sets no imieniny for him. The meaning behind the two dots over the u holds to the Persian sense: high.
How many people are named Bülent
1 in 237180 men in Poland is named Bülent. 90 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3694 among male names.
Bülent as a middle name
Bülent is a first name for 90 men in Poland and a middle name for another 9, a 91/9 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3257th, between Börje (9) and Casimiro (9).
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#3255 Bright9
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#3256 Börje9
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#3257 Bülent9
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#3258 Casimiro9
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#3259 Caspian9