Ozlem

#11,667 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Ozlem has been given to 86 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #11,667 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Ozlem, 2025

1 in 414,000

Ozlem over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Ozlem?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,667
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ozlem 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 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ozlem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ozlems were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ozlem was born before 2022 — so the typical Ozlem is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
88.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
86
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2020s — 88.4% of all recorded uses (76).

Is Ozlem 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
−774
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+200
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
27.6%
Peak was 2022 (29)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
58.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,762
2022

Spellings of Ozlem

Ozlem is not the most common spelling — Salem is, with 83.1% against Ozlem's 1.1%.

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.

Ozlem around the world

Where Ozlem 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
    1996–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • France
    1972–2024
    #6,238
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1992–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ozlem by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,667
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 200
Best rank ever
#4,762
2022
Peak year
2022
29 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
86
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Ozlem

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

Sibling names for Ozlem

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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