Zeynep

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Zeynep: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Zeynep: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #788 in 2021, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#788highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1522
1997	#1287
1998	#1480
1999	#1557
2000	#1033
2001	#871
2002	#1530
2003	#1026
2004	#1209
2005	#1295
2006	#855
2007	#1234
2008	#1391
2009	#1325
2010	#1072
2011	#1067
2012	#1099
2013	#1177
2014	#877
2015	#1088
2016	#813
2017	#1021
2018	#952
2019	#920
2020	#1100
2021	#788
2022	#857
2023	#865
2024	#1007

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2015: #896 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1088 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1522 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #788 among girls in England and Wales, in 2021 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Zeynep appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 815 births with the name.

Zeynep across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Zeynep's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#1522 (1996)	#788 (2021)	#1007 (2024)	29 of 29	815 (1996–2024)	47 (2016)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#896 (2015)	#885 (2025)	#885 (2025)	2 of 11	6 (2015–2025)	3 (2015)

Zeynep by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Zeynep in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	48	4 of 10	12
2000s	217	10 of 10	22
2010s	357	10 of 10	36
2020sbusiest	193	5 of 10	39

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 39 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Zeynep appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #788 in England and Wales in 2021.

Zeynep's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1007	35	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#865	41	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#857	41	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#788	46	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1100	30	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#920	39	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#952	38	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1021	35	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#813	47	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1088	32	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#877	43	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1177	29	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1099	31	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1067	32	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1072	31	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1325	22	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1391	20	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1234	22	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#855	35	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1295	18	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1209	19	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1026	23	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1530	12	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#871	26	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1033	20	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1557	11	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1480	12	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1287	14	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1522	11	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #788, first reached in 2021.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 47 births, registered in England and Wales in 2016.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2015, and 19 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Zi · #518, 19y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Ananya · #787, 28y
Adanna · #790, 26y
Bonny · #790, 26y
Franki · #790, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Malikah · #788, 27y
Vikram · #788, 29y
Zahid · #788, 29y
Ananya · #787, 28y

Zeynep was ranked #788 in England and Wales · Girls in 2021. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Zeynep and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Zeynep without appearing here.

Zeynep moved ahead of

Jenny Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1100 and #1100 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #788 and #2499.
Janice Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1522 and #1364 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1287 and #2738.
Judith Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1325 and #1325 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1072 and #2104.
Suzanne Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1295 and #745 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #855 and #1585.

Moved ahead of Zeynep

Beau Compare
In 2001 they stood at #871 and #1107 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1530 and #809.
Riley Compare
In 2001 they stood at #871 and #1439 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1530 and #822.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #920 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1100 and #460.
Audrey Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1026 and #1325 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1209 and #736.

Moved the opposite way to Zeynep

Kristin Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Zeynep went from #1522 to #865 while Kristin went from #1434 to #5687.
Therese Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Zeynep went from #1522 to #865 while Therese went from #2096 to #4709.
Tracey Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Zeynep went from #1522 to #865 while Tracey went from #783 to #5687.
Carol Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Zeynep went from #1522 to #788 while Carol went from #802 to #3519.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #788 in England and Wales in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Zeynep

Zeynep at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Zeynep across 2 official records

Zeynep by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Zeynep appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Zeynep at a glance

Zeynep across 2 official records

Zeynep by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Zeynep appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Zeynep

Zeynep and the names beside it

Zeynep moved ahead of

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