Gamze
The Turkish name for a dimple in the cheek. Fewer than a hundred women in Poland carry it, so meeting one stays with you.
Gamze Pronunciation
Gamze is pronounced GAHM-ze (/ˈgamzɛ/).
What Gamze means
Where Gamze comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gamze comes from Turkish, and it names the small dimple that forms in a cheek during a smile. The word stands apart from the Slavic and Latin roots behind most Polish names. Its origin is recorded plainly as other, its cultural home Turkish. In Polish the sense is given as dołeczek na policzku.
There is a second life to the word. In Ottoman divan poetry, gamze meant a coquettish sidelong glance, a flirtatious look cast from lowered eyes. The everyday meaning stayed closer to the face itself, the dimple, and that reading is the one the name carries today.
Gamze is a common given name for girls in Turkey. No Polish variant exists. It takes no diminutives, and on a class register in Poland it would sit easily among names ending in -a, a short two syllables. The name means one small thing, the dimple, dołeczek na policzku.
How many people are named Gamze
1 in 250487 women in Poland is named Gamze. 90 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3701 among female names.
Gamze as a middle name
Gamze is a first name for 90 women in Poland and a middle name for another 14, an 87/13 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1989th, between Gabryiela (14) and Genia (14).
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#1987 Frankie14
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#1988 Gabryiela14
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#1989 Gamze14
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#1990 Genia14
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#1991 Germaine14