Nihat
A Turkish name meaning nature or disposition. In Poland it's about as rare as names get: fewer than 80 men carry it, and not one boy has been given it since 2000.
Nihat Pronunciation
Nihat is pronounced NYEE-khaht (/ˈɲixat/).
What Nihat means
Where Nihat comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nihat travels to Turkey by way of Arabic. The source is nihād, a word for nature and disposition, the grain of a person's character. Turkish took it in as a masculine given name, and its short meaning stayed close to the root: nature, temperament, the way someone is made.
A name about disposition tells you little about any one bearer. It names the fact of having a temperament, not which one. Among Turkish men who carry it, the name reads as steady and slightly formal. One documented bearer is Nihat Erim, a Turkish prime minister of the early 1970s, which fixes the name to a real public record rather than legend.
In Poland the name is rare. It has no diminutive here, no Polish variant, no name-day of its own. A boy called Nihat shows up in a Kraków class register spelled exactly as the Turkish spells it. That plainness is part of the story. The name does not bend to Polish grammar the way Marek or Piotr do, and it keeps its Arabic sense intact: nature, disposition.
How many people are named Nihat
1 in 277223 men in Poland is named Nihat. 77 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4069 among male names.