Gözde
A Turkish name meaning "favorite", the favored one. Only about 60 women in Poland carry it, and records show no newborns since 2000: most Poles have never met one.
Gözde Pronunciation
Gözde is pronounced GÖZDE (/gözdɛ/).
What Gözde means
Where Gözde comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gözde comes from Turkish, and its parts are easy to see. The root is "göz," the word for eye. Add the suffix and you get the sense of someone held in the eye, watched for in a crowd. From that grew the meaning the name carries today: favorite, beloved.
In the Ottoman court the word had a specific use. A gözde was a woman in the sultan's harem who had caught his notice, the favored one. The name kept the warmer half of that history and let the palace part fade.
In Poland the name is rare. A teacher reading a class register in Wrocław might pause on it once. It has no Polish diminutive and no local variant, so it stays as it came: Gözde, four letters, one meaning.
How many people are named Gözde
1 in 375731 women in Poland is named Gözde. 60 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4756 among female names.
Gözde as a middle name
Gözde is a first name for 60 women in Poland and a middle name for another 11, an 85/15 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2277th, between Gökçe (11) and Haydee (11).
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#2275 Giorgia11
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#2276 Gökçe11
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#2277 Gözde11
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#2278 Haydee11
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#2279 Heromina11