Zeliha
given name · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zeliha is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is the 52nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Urdu, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: bk. Züleyha.
- TRTürkiye1 in 450◐
- SYSyria1 in 2.3K
- BEBelgium1 in 15K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.0K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 76 ●
- 1 in 10K ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
1.6M records
Official registry-verified
Albania
Spellings & scripts●
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●
bk. Züleyha
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #52 | 1,200,217 | 1.6M rec. | — | #93 | Zeliha | 76 |
| SY Syria | #245 | 14,764 | 15K rec. | — | — | Zeliha | 4 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1,022 | 1K rec. | — | 5 | Zeliha | 10 |
| CY Cyprus | #482 | 580 | 679 rec. | — | — | Zeliha | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 346 | 284 rec. | — | — | Zeliha | 27 |
| US United States | — | 324 | 282 rec. | — | — | Zeliha | 64 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 300 | 1.1K rec. | 1 in 58K | 300 | Zeliha | 22 |
| AL Albania | — | 300 | — | 1 in 10K | 300 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 266 | 256 rec. | — | — | Zeliha | 7 |
| DK Denmark | — | 209 | — | 1 in 28K | 209 | — | — |
| RO Romania | — | 175 | 176 rec. | — | — | Zeliha | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 155 | 106 rec. | 1 in 66K | 155 | Zeliha | 6 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Turkish1.2M96%
- Urdu15K1%
- German10K1%
- Arabic8K1%
- Bulgarian6.1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 1,193,741 | 96% |
| Urdu | 14,704 | 1% |
| German | 10,094 | 1% |
| Arabic | 8,019 | 1% |
| Bulgarian | 6,108 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 76 |
| 2000 | 76 |
| 2001 | 78 |
| 2002 | 80 |
| 2003 | 81 |
| 2004 | 82 |
| 2005 | 88 |
| 2006 | 93 |
| 2007 | 96 |
| 2008 | 94 |
| 2009 | 94 |
| 2010 | 98 |
| 2011 | 99 |
| 2012 | 100 |
| 2013 | 101 |
| 2014 | 102 |
| 2015 | 101 |
| 2016 | 101 |
| 2017 | 97 |
| 2018 | 102 |
| 2019 | 106 |
| 2020 | 108 |
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●
- Sevim Burakb. 1931TRnot in their usual nameTurkish writer (1931–1983)
- Zeliha Berksoyb. 1946TRTurkish actor (born 1946)
- Zeliha Sunalb. 1962TRTurkish singer (born 1962)
- Zeliha Gundem-Senb. 1971NLpolitician from the Netherlands
- Zeliha Arslanb. 1975ATAustrian politician
- Zeliha Şimşekb. 1981TRTurkish association football player (born 1981)
- Zeliha Ağrısb. 1998TRTurkish taekwondo athlete (born 1998)
- Zeliha Karakurtb. 2000TRTurkish association football player (born 2000)
- Zeliha Nur Aksub. 2001TRTurkish association football player (born 2001)
- Zeliha Çalactress
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●
Attested in 27 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 217 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Zeliha?
- We estimate roughly 1.0 thousand people bear Zeliha (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Zeliha have the most bearers?
- Zeliha is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled zeliha.
- How common is Zeliha compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Zeliha is the 52nd most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
- Is Zeliha a male or female name?
- Zeliha 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 Zeliha mean?
- Recorded meaning: bk. Züleyha
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zeliha” — the 52nd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.