'''Cahit''' is a Turkish given name for males. It is also used as a surname It is the Turkish form of the Arabic word Jahid (Arabic: جاهِد ''jāhid''), which means "effort, strive" or "endeavour" and stems from the Arabic verb ''jahada'' (Arabic: َجَهَد) "to do effort to get something - be laborious; be perseverant; be sedulous; be serious". Notable people named Cahit include:
==First name== * Cahit Aral (1927–2011), Turkish engineer and politician * Cahit Arf (1910–1997), Turkish mathematician * Cahit Irgat (1915–1971), Turkish actor * Cahit Karakaş (1928–2025), Turkish engineer and politician * Cahit Kıraç (born 1956), Turkish bureaucrat * Cahit Külebi (1917–1997), Turkish poet * Cahit Ölmez (1963–2025), Turkish Dutch actor * Cahit Önel (1927–1970), Turkish athlete * Cahit Ortaç (1908–1980), Turkish politician * Cahit Özkan (born 1976), Turkish politician * Cahit Paşa (born 1973), Turkish football player * Cahit Süme (born 1972), Turkish boxer * Cahit Talas (1917–2006), Turkish academic * Cahit Tanyol (1914–2020), Turkish writer and sociologist * Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı (1910–1956), Turkish poet and author * Cahit Zarifoğlu (1940–1987), Turkish poet and writer
==Middle name== * Cemil Cahit Toydemir (1883–1956), Turkish army officer * Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın (1874–1957), Turkish writer and politician * Mehmet Cahit Turhan (born 1960), Turkish engineer and civil servant
==Surname== * Neriman Cahit (born 1937), Turkish Cypriot poet and author
{{given name|type=both}} Category:Turkish masculine given names Category:Masculine given names Category:Surnames derived from given names