Ceylan
A Turkish name meaning "gazelle". In Poland it stays rare: fewer than thirty women carry it, and no girl has been given it in years, so meeting one would stick in your memory.
Ceylan Pronunciation
Ceylan is pronounced tse-IH-lahn (/t͡sɛˈɨlan/).
What Ceylan means
Where Ceylan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
In Turkish, ceylan means gazelle. The word names the slender antelope of the Anatolian steppe, an animal that Turkish poets praise for its dark eyes and light step. Love songs reach for the gazelle to describe grace, and the name holds that picture.
Ceylan belongs to girls across Turkey, and the same word serves as a common surname. The film director Nuri Bilge Ceylan carries it that way. His Winter Sleep won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2014.
In Poland the name is rare. On a Warsaw class register it would sit alone among the Zuzannas and Julias, with no imieniny to mark on the calendar. There are no Polish diminutives for it, no softened variant. The word stays whole, and it still means gazelle.
How many people are named Ceylan
1 in 777374 women in Poland is named Ceylan. 29 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7617 among female names.
Ceylan as a middle name
Ceylan is a first name for 29 women in Poland and a middle name for another 5, an 85/15 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3537th, between Cecily (5) and Chaia (5).
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#3535 Cathrin5
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#3536 Cecily5
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#3537 Ceylan5
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#3538 Chaia5
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#3539 Chanell5