TurkicNames Blog

Turkic baby names, explained

How Turkic names are built, what they mean and how they are written across Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek and more.

Zeynep: meaning and rank in Turkey, 2018–2025

Our stored meanings for Zeynep, all marked plausible, the languages in our table, and TÜİK newborn ranks for each year from 2018 to 2025.

What our database records for Yusuf as a prophet's name, the languages in our table, and TÜİK boys' ranks for each year from 2018…

The 30 Turkish names with the highest combined totals across TÜİK's yearly top-30 newborn lists for 2018 to 2025, and how those totals are…

The top 25 Turkish names by combined total in TÜİK's 2018 to 2025 newborn lists, including the six names that reached first place in…

All 92 Turkish names that appeared in TÜİK's 2018 to 2025 newborn lists, ranked by combined total, with how many years each name made…

Yusuf topped the boys' list until 2021, then Alparslan took over in 2022. For girls, Zeynep led until 2022, and the top spot changed…

The 30 girls' names with the highest combined totals in TÜİK's 2018 to 2025 girls' top-30 lists, plus the biggest rises and falls between…

The 30 boys' names with the highest combined totals in TÜİK's 2018 to 2025 boys' top-30 lists, plus the biggest rises and falls between…

Two documented meanings for Mehmet in our database, the three language entries in our table, and TÜİK boys' ranks from 2018 to 2025, when…

Our stored meaning right-handed for Eymen, its Turkish usage entry, and TÜİK boys' ranks for each year from 2018 to 2025, when it fell…