Ceyda
Most Poles will never meet a Ceyda: only 31 women here carry it, and none were named last year. It comes from Turkish and reads as "shines like the moon".
Ceyda Pronunciation
Ceyda is pronounced tse-IH-dah (/t͡sɛˈɨda/).
What Ceyda means
Where Ceyda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ceyda belongs to Turkish, and it names a beautiful woman, one with a long and graceful neck. The description sounds strange in Polish until you recall old Arabic poetry, where a long neck marked elegance. The word behind it traces to a root meaning close to that. Turkish took it in and kept the sense.
The name stays near its meaning. There are no diminutives, no shortened pet form for a class register. A girl called Ceyda is Ceyda on the form at the urząd, whole.
Poland knows the name mostly through Turkish television, where it sits on actresses and characters. The Turkish c reads like an English j, so the name sounds like "Jayda." Some people say it shines like the moon, though that reading came later. The older one still points to the neck and the beauty.
How many people are named Ceyda
1 in 727220 women in Poland is named Ceyda. 31 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7257 among female names.
Ceyda as a middle name
Ceyda is a first name for 31 women in Poland and a middle name for another 7, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2939th, between Caridad (7) and Chika (7).
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#2937 Candy7
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#2938 Caridad7
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#2939 Ceyda7
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#2940 Chika7
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#2941 Chipo7