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Gizem

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Gizem has been given to 19 babies in the U.S. since 1992. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1999, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Gizem, 1999

1 in 410,000

Gizem over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gizem: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gizem means

Gizem is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Gizem is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 19 girls were recorded with the name Gizem between 1992 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1999; its best national rank was #9,766 in 1999.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gizem?

Gizem had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1999
1 in 410,000
9 of 3,692,373 births
Among girls only
1 in 197,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1999
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
284,374 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gizem sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1999 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 284,374 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gizem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gizems were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gizem was born before 1994 — so the typical Gizem is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
19
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (19).

Is Gizem rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1999 (9)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#9,766
1999

Spellings of Gizem

Gizem is not the most common spelling — Lizet is, with 35.8% against Gizem's 0.27%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Gizem around the world

Where Gizem ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2017
    #5,765
    in 2017
  • France
    1989–2022
    #6,408
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Gizem by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#9,766
1999
Peak year
1999
9 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
19
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gizem

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Gizem

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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