Cihan
A Turkish name meaning "world" or "universe". In Poland it belongs to a small circle of about sixty men, all of them male bearers, and none have been given it since 2000.
Cihan Pronunciation
Cihan is pronounced CHEE-khahn (/ˈt͡ɕixan/).
What Cihan means
Where Cihan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Cihan comes to Turkish from Persian, where jahān means "world." The origin sits outside the Turkic word-stock, borrowed along the long road that carried Persian vocabulary into Ottoman speech. The short meaning stays close to that root: world, and by extension the whole universe. A parent filling out a form at the urząd writes four letters that once described everything under the sky.
The word traveled well. Persian jahān fed the compound Cihangir, "world-taker," which is a separate name rather than a form of Cihan, and one Ottoman prince carried it: Şehzade Cihangir, a son of Suleiman the Magnificent, who died young in 1553. Cihan itself stayed simpler. It names the thing, not the conquest of it.
In Turkey it works for a boy or a girl, and it stays short. Three syllables in Polish, two in Turkish. No diminutive trails after it in the given fields, so it arrives whole.
A Polish class register would list it plainly among Kacper and Zofia. The teacher reads "Cihan," and the meaning underneath is world.
How many people are named Cihan
1 in 333534 men in Poland is named Cihan. 64 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4561 among male names.
Cihan as a middle name
Cihan is a first name for 64 men in Poland and a middle name for another 10, an 86/14 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3073rd, between Christianus (10) and Corey (10).
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#3071 Chinedum10
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#3072 Christianus10
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#3073 Ci̇han10
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#3074 Corey10
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#3075 Dajan10