Ipek

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled โอเป็ก in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ipek is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name4.5K records spelled Ipek2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Australia, Netherlands

  Also written Îpek

• Spanish given name1.7K records spelled Ipek6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Spain, United States, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Îpek, Ipêk, Ipék

• a separate given name762 records spelled Ipek3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, United Kingdom

  Also written Ípek

• Bulgarian given name726 records spelled Ipek10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Bulgaria, Türkiye, North Macedonia, Kazakhstan

  Languages: Bulgarian, Macedonian, Croatian

  Also written Ипек, Ipęk

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Ipek is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Turkish, silk

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Turkish, 1. Bir tür böceğin ördüğü kozadan elde edilen ve kumaş yapımında kullanılan ince parlak tel ve bundan yapılan kumaş. 2. Zarif, kibar, ince.

  as a word·TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

• In gag, silky, of silk

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• İpek Bilginb. 1956TRTurkish actor (born 1956)
• İpek Tenolcayb. 1970TRTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1970)
• İpek Şenoğlub. 1979TRTurkish tennis player (born 1979)
• Melike İpek Yalovab. 1984TRTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1984)
• İpek Yaylacıoğlub. 1984TRTurkish actor (born 1984)
• İpek Karapınarb. 1984TRTurkish actor (born 1984)
• İpek Kıraçb. 1984TRTurkish businessperson (born 1984)
• İpek Soylub. 1996TRTurkish tennis player (born 1996)
• İpek Özb. 1999TRTurkish tennis player (born 1999)
• İpek Filiz Yazıcıb. 2001TRTurkish actor (born 2001)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 163 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ipek?

We estimate roughly 687 people bear Ipek (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Ipek have the most bearers?

Ipek is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled ipek.

How common is Ipek compared with other names?

In Türkiye, Ipek is the 339th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.

Is Ipek a male or female name?

Ipek is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Ipek mean?

Recorded meaning: a female given name which means "silk"