Mount Nif is sometimes cited as Kemalpaşa Mountain in reference to the district center, especially in Turkish sources. But the name Mount Nif, deriving from Nymphaion, the name of the region during the Byzantine period when it was an important and imperial center especially at the time of the Nicaean Empire, is the more common appellation in Turkey as well. This is also the case for the principal stream that crosses the district area, the River Nif (Nif Çayı). The district center and the depending administrative area almost invariably go by the name of Kemalpaşa, with the former name used very rarely nowadays and only colloquially.