Filiz
A Turkish name almost no one in Poland carries: fewer than thirty women in all, and no newborns for a quarter century. It comes from the Turkish word for a young sprout or shoot.
Filiz Pronunciation
Filiz is pronounced FEE-lees (/ˈfilis/).
What Filiz means
Where Filiz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Filiz is a Turkish given name for a young shoot, the tender sprout that opens on a vine in spring. The word sits outside the core Turkish vocabulary, and its origin is filed under other, with etymologists tracing it back to Greek. The plain meaning holds: sprout, shoot.
In Turkey the name has been carried by public figures, among them the writer Filiz Bingölçe, who compiled a dictionary of women's slang. As a name it points to something small and new rather than grand. There is no diminutive to soften it, and no masculine twin to pair with. Filiz stands on its own.
A Polish teacher reading it off a class register may pause at the spelling before the pupil answers. In Polish the sense lands as pęd, kiełek, the shoot pushing up through soil.
How many people are named Filiz
1 in 901753 women in Poland is named Filiz. 25 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8522 among female names.
Filiz as a middle name
Filiz is a first name for 25 women in Poland and a middle name for another 5, an 83/17 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3600th, between Fidelisa (5) and Florica (5).
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#3598 Faustine5
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#3599 Fidelisa5
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#3600 Filiz5
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#3601 Florica5
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#3602 Frederika5