Zeynep
#2,076 for girls in 2025, 90 births
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 138 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,454since 1981
Zeynep over time
Rank among girls' names. Zeynep has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,076 | 90 |
| 2024 | #1,852 | 108 |
| 2023 | #1,603 | 130 |
| 2022 | #1,548 | 138 |
| 2021 | #2,212 | 84 |
| 2020 | #1,763 | 113 |
| 2019 | #3,222 | 49 |
| 2018 | #3,293 | 48 |
| 2017 | #2,835 | 59 |
| 2016 | #3,326 | 48 |
| 2015 | #3,346 | 48 |
| 2014 | #3,549 | 44 |
| 2013 | #3,645 | 42 |
| 2012 | #3,644 | 43 |
| 2011 | #3,303 | 49 |
| 2010 | #4,735 | 30 |
| 2009 | #5,226 | 27 |
| 2008 | #3,936 | 40 |
| 2007 | #4,475 | 33 |
| 2006 | #6,125 | 21 |
| 2005 | #6,820 | 17 |
| 2004 | #5,555 | 22 |
| 2003 | #5,795 | 20 |
| 2002 | #5,444 | 21 |
| 2001 | #6,067 | 18 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 |
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| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 |
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| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 |
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| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Zeynep! It came in at #10,411, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1983, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Zeynep is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#1,036 · 1 in 5,917
- Virginia#1,180 · 1 in 6,748
- Illinois#1,240 · 1 in 7,388
- Ohio#1,438 · 1 in 9,454
- Texas#1,714 · 1 in 12,349
Best ever in a state: #596 in New Jersey, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #1,036 | 6 | 1 in 5,917 |
| Virginia | #1,180 | 5 | 1 in 6,748 |
| Illinois | #1,240 | 6 | 1 in 7,388 |
| Ohio | #1,438 | 5 | 1 in 9,454 |
| Texas | #1,714 | 13 | 1 in 12,349 |
| California | #1,830 | 11 | 1 in 14,702 |
| New York | #1,830 | 6 | 1 in 13,055 |
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See more about Zeynep
- 224 spots since 2024 (#1,852 → #2,076)
- 313 spots since 2020 (#1,763 → #2,076)
- 1,270 spots since 2015 (#3,346 → #2,076)
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 2022 at #1,548 (138 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,885 girls born in 2022 were named Zeynep (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,859 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 45.6% of all girls named Zeynep (663) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 23 | #9,144 (1984) | #9,910 |
| 1990s | 76 | #6,719 (1998) | #10,061 |
| 2000s | 232 | #3,936 (2008) | #5,702 |
| 2010s | 460 | #2,835 (2017) | #3,490 |
| 2020s | 663 | #1,548 (2022) | #1,842 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Zeynep in 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
More about 2025
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1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 17,859 of them was named Zeynep, which outranked 88.0% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #2,064Nylani91
- #2,064Ryla91
- #2,064Vaani91
- #2,076Zeynep90
- #2,076Acelynn90
- #2,076Angely90
- #2,076Annabeth90
- #2,099Aislynn89
- #2,099Anari89
- #2,099Aryana89
Tied with 22 names at #2,076; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.