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Zeynep

#2,098 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Zaynab

Zeynep has been given to 1,454 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #2,098 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 138 recorded.

Babies named Zeynep, 2025

1 in 36,800

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zeynep: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Zaynab

Turkish and Arabic

What Zeynep means

Zeynep is a form of Zaynab.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Zeynep → Zaynab. The family’s meaning is “fragrant flower”, recorded in English with the source elements zaynab.

Origin, language, and formation

Zeynep is used in English and Turkish. Its origins include Turkish and Arabic.

Zeynep comes through Turkish Zeynep.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zaynab.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Zeynep is pronounced /zejˈnep/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,454 girls were recorded with the name Zeynep between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 138 in 2022; its best national rank was #1,555 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,768 in 2020 to #2,098 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,388 in 2015 to #2,098 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 Zeynep?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 36,800
90 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 17,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,098
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
25,533 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zeynep 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 25,533 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zeynep. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zeyneps were born

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

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
45.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,454
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 45.6% of all recorded uses (663).

Is Zeynep 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
−229
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−330
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,290
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.88×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
65.2%
Peak was 2022 (138)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,555
2022

Where Zeynep is used

Across 2016–2025, Zeynep was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 5,556 girls, against 1 in 13,949 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

118 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 5,556
  2. 2New York1 in 7,692
  3. 3California1 in 12,500
  4. 4Texas1 in 12,500
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 16,667
  6. 6Florida1 in 25,000
  7. 7Virginia1 in 25,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Zeynep around the world

Where Zeynep 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
    1996–2025
    #983
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2003–2021
    #792
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    2015–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    1973–2025
    #447
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1989–2004
    #700
    in 2004

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

Zeynep by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,098
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 330
Best rank ever
#1,555
2022
Peak year
2022
138 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,454
Count in 2025
90

Names similar to Zeynep

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

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Sibling names for Zeynep

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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