Ece
A Turkish name meaning "queen". In Poland it barely registers: fewer than a hundred women carry it and no girls were given it last year, so most Poles have never met one.
Ece Pronunciation
Ece is pronounced E-tse (/ˈɛt͡sɛ/).
What Ece means
Where Ece comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ece comes from Turkish, and there it means queen. The word is Turkish through and through, which places it outside the Greek, Latin, and Slavic families that fill most Polish records. Its origin is marked simply as other.
In Turkish, ece is an ordinary noun for a queen or a woman of rank, so a girl named Ece holds a plain word rather than a borrowed title. The Turkish writer Ece Temelkuran, a journalist and novelist, is among the name's best-known bearers today, and her books have been translated into many languages.
On a Polish class register, Ece stands out for its shape. Three letters, two of them e. A teacher reading the imieniny list will not find Ece there, since it keeps no Polish name-day. What it keeps instead is its meaning, królowa, queen.
How many people are named Ece
1 in 237304 women in Poland is named Ece. 95 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3558 among female names.
Ece as a middle name
Ece is a first name for 95 women in Poland and a middle name for another 36, a 73/27 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1156th, between Damroka (36) and Elida (36).
-
#1154 Christel36
-
#1155 Damroka36
-
#1156 Ece36
-
#1157 Elida36
-
#1158 Elina36