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Kuzey

#5,319 in 2025Boys' name

North

Kuzey has been given to 168 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #5,319 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Kuzey, 2025

1 in 184,000

Kuzey over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kuzey: meaning, origin, and history

North

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kuzey means

Kuzey means “north”, associated with kuzey.

Origin, language, and formation

Kuzey is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 168 boys were recorded with the name Kuzey between 2009 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2025; its best national rank was #5,319 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,189 in 2020 to #5,319 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,335 in 2015 to #5,319 in 2025.

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 Kuzey?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 94,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,319
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kuzey sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kuzey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kuzeys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kuzey was born before 2018 — so the typical Kuzey is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
60.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
168
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Choose a decade

2010s — 60.7% of all recorded uses (102).

Is Kuzey 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
+1,754
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,870
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,016
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.64×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (18)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,319
2025

Spellings of Kuzey

Kuzey is not the most common spelling — Kasey is, with 31.0% against Kuzey's 0.41%.

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.

Where Kuzey is used

Across 1910–2025, Kuzey was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,673,334 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kuzey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kuzey around the world

Where Kuzey 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
    2010–2025
    #2,014
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2016–2016
    #713
    in 2016
  • France
    2010–2025
    #2,385
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2022
    #2,335
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kuzey by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,319
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,870
Best rank ever
#5,319
2025
Peak year
2025
18 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
168
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Kuzey

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

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Sibling names for Kuzey

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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