Uncommon Turkish Girl Names

Turkish names include vocabulary names and forms shared with neighboring languages. Every name shown is outside the latest U.S. Top 1000 for the sex displayed, including names without a published count that year. The figures describe these spellings in U.S. records; they are not rankings in the source language’s home countries.

Save nameName & connection
History
1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled
Babies 2025 · rank5-year rank movementPeak year

Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1985.

197#1,173
Up 525 rank positions in five years
2023

Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1947.

10#9,836
Up 1,869 rank positions in five years
1989

Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1966.

79#2,314
Up 203 rank positions in five years
2023

Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1968.

74#2,414
Down 346 rank positions in five years
2022

Recorded in Turkish as Sümer; in U.S. records from 1971.

7#13,033
Up 280 rank positions in five years
1977

Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1994.

60#2,857
Down 310 rank positions in five years
2022

Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1890.

24#5,292
Down 229 rank positions in five years
2019

Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1978.

11#9,048
Down 1,723 rank positions in five years
2014

Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1977.

24#5,402
Down 531 rank positions in five years
2013

Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1986.

34#4,246
Up 377 rank positions in five years
2023

Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1939.

5#16,980
Down 3,665 rank positions in five years
1971

Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1918.

—Unranked
—
1920

Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1981.

10#9,610
new
2024

Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 2009.

5#16,595
new
2023

Recorded in Turkish as Pınar; in U.S. records from 1982.

—Unranked
—
1982

Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 2012.

—Unranked
—
2014

Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 2003.

—Unranked
—
2003

Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 2024.

5#15,734
new
2024

Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 2001.

—Unranked
—
2001

Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 2013.

—Unranked
—
2019

Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 2021.

—Unranked
—
2021

Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1980.

—Unranked
—
1980

Recorded in Turkish as Gül; in U.S. records from 2009.

—Unranked
—
2009

Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 2011.

—Unranked
—
2011

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Sources & methodology

Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.

Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.

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