Zeynep
given name · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zeynep is a given name, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 14th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Kurdish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: precious gemstone.
- TRTürkiye1 in 116◐
- SYSyria1 in 863
- AFAfghanistan1 in 946
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈723K ●
- #606 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 190 ●
- 1 in 116 ◐
across 11 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
4.3M records
Official registry-verified
Türkiye
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Зейнеп in KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan, RU Russia and 1 more.
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●
precious gemstone
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 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 | #14 | 707,953 | 4.2M rec. | 1 in 116 | 708K | Zeynep | 166 |
| SY Syria | #75 | 38,569 | 39K rec. | — | — | Zeynep | 7 |
| BG Bulgaria | #215 | 6,815 | 6.6K rec. | — | — | Zeynep | 28 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #540 | 6,430 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Зейнеп | 16 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #495 | 6,149 | 14K rec. | 1 in 3.1K | 6.1K | Зейнеп | 37 |
| RU Russia | — | 3,736 | 2.1K rec. | — | #1,538 | Зейнеп | 85 |
| FR France | — | 3,045 | 0 rec. | 1 in 22K | 3K | — | 1 |
| UA Ukraine | #948 | 2,840 | 2.9K rec. | — | — | Зейнеп | 11 |
| AF Afghanistan | #31 | 2,296 | 2.3K rec. | — | — | Zeynep | 2 |
| CY Cyprus | #113 | 2,176 | 2.5K rec. | — | — | Zeynep | 18 |
| BE Belgium | #876 | 2,063 | 2.1K rec. | — | 31 | Zeynep | 26 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,019 | 1.3K rec. | — | 3 | Zeynep | 73 |
Roughly 708K people in Türkiye bear this name (about 1 in 116). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Turkish3.5M80%
- Kurdish722K17%
- German31K1%
- Arabic27K1%
- French23K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 3,472,481 | 80% |
| Kurdish | 722,136 | 17% |
| German | 30,742 | 1% |
| Arabic | 27,114 | 1% |
| French | 22,657 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Zeynep is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, Değerli taşlar, mücevherler.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Swedish, Zeynep är den turkiska formen av → Zainab. Zeineb är en bosnisk form.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1981 | 5 |
| 1982 | 6 |
| 1984 | 6 |
| 1989 | 6 |
| 1990 | 5 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1992 | 8 |
| 1994 | 8 |
| 1995 | 8 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1997 | 10 |
| 1998 | 14 |
| 1999 | 13 |
| 2000 | 13 |
| 2001 | 18 |
| 2002 | 21 |
| 2003 | 20 |
| 2004 | 22 |
| 2005 | 17 |
| 2006 | 21 |
| 2007 | 33 |
| 2008 | 40 |
| 2009 | 27 |
| 2010 | 30 |
| 2011 | 49 |
| 2012 | 43 |
| 2013 | 42 |
| 2014 | 44 |
| 2015 | 48 |
| 2016 | 48 |
| 2017 | 59 |
| 2018 | 48 |
| 2019 | 49 |
| 2020 | 113 |
| 2021 | 84 |
| 2022 | 138 |
| 2023 | 130 |
| 2024 | 108 |
| 2025 | 90 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 39 years between 1981–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Zaynab bint Khuzaymab. 595SAnot in their usual nameMuhammad's fifth wife (c. 596–625)
- Zainab bint Muhammadb. 599SAnot in their usual nameEldest daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
- Zaynab Fawwazb. 1844LBnot in their usual namewomen's rights activist and writer
- Nazli Fazlb. 1853TRnot in their usual nameEgyptian princess
- Zeynep Tüfekçib. 1970TRTurkish sociologist and writer (born 1970)
- Zeynep Tokuşb. 1977TRTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1977)
- Zeynep Beserlerb. 1979TRTurkish actor (born 1979)
- Zeynep Çamcıb. 1986TRTurkish actor (born 1986)
- Zeynep Severb. 1989TRTurkish-Belgian volleyball player (born 1989)
- Farah Zeynep Abdullahb. 1989TRTurkish actor and singer (born 1989)
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 54 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used given names | 2025 | 708K | #5 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2018 | 14K | #1 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2019 | 13K | #1 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2020 | 11K | #1 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2021 | 10K | #1 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2022 | 8.8K | #1 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2023 | 7.6K | #2 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2025 | 6.2K | #4 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 3K | #543 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 2K | #833 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.6K | #8,828 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 1.6K | #1,573 |
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 · 369 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Zeynep?
- We estimate roughly 723 thousand people bear Zeynep (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Zeynep have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 708 thousand people bear Zeynep in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled zeynep.
- Where is Zeynep most common?
- Zeynep is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 116 people carrying it.
- How common is Zeynep compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Zeynep is the 14th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
- Is Zeynep a male or female name?
- Zeynep 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 Zeynep mean?
- Recorded meaning: precious gemstone
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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, “Zeynep” — the 14th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.