Cansu
A Turkish name meaning "water of life", from *can* "soul" and *su* "water". Barely a hundred women in Poland carry it, so most people here will never meet one.
Cansu Pronunciation
Cansu is pronounced TSAHN-soo (/ˈt͡sansu/).
What Cansu means
Where Cansu comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Cansu comes from Turkish, and it divides into two small words. "Can" means soul, or life, and it reached Turkish from the Persian "jān." "Su" is simply water. Read together, the name says soul water, the water of life.
In Turkey the name lands mostly on girls, though it is counted among the unisex ones. The actress Cansu Dere, known from Turkish television, has worn it in public for two decades. Because "can" also serves as an everyday word for a dear person, a Turkish speaker hears warmth in the first syllable before reaching the water in the second.
On a Polish class register the name would stand out, foreign beside Zofia and Julia. It keeps no Polish name-day. What it keeps is its plain sense: soul water, the water of a living soul.
How many people are named Cansu
1 in 199503 women in Poland is named Cansu. 113 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3194 among female names.
Cansu's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Cansu as a middle name
Cansu is a first name for 113 women in Poland and a middle name for another 14, an 89/11 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1974th, between Brooklyn (14) and Cecilie (14).
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#1972 Beatrycza14
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#1973 Brooklyn14
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#1974 Cansu14
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#1975 Cecilie14
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#1976 Chantel14