Zeynep
A Turkish name meaning "fragrant flower". Most Poles have never met one: only a few hundred carry it, all of them women, and the handful of newborns each year keep it quietly alive.
Zeynep Pronunciation
Zeynep is pronounced ze-IH-nep (/zɛˈɨnɛp/).
What Zeynep means
Where Zeynep comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zeynep is the Turkish rendering of the Arabic name Zaynab, which belonged first to a flowering desert plant known for its scent. That older word gives the name its plain English meaning, a fragrant flower, and its Polish one, kwiat.
The Arabic form was carried by women close to the Prophet Muhammad, among them his daughter Zaynab and his granddaughter Zaynab bint Ali, both remembered in early Islamic history. Turkish families adopted the name in its own shape, Zeynep, and it has ranked for years among the most popular girls' names given in Turkey.
On a Polish class register today, a Zeynep might sit between a Zofia and a Zuzanna, her name marking a Turkish family or a marriage across borders. It travels well. The flower stays inside it, that scented desert bloom that the Arabic Zaynab first named.
How many people are named Zeynep
1 in 63683 women in Poland is named Zeynep. 354 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1596 among female names.
Zeynep's popularity over time
3 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1405 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2022.
Where Zeynep is most popular
Zeynep is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (4 girls born 2019–2025).
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Masovian4 girls born+510%
Zeynep as a middle name
Zeynep is a first name for 354 women in Poland and a middle name for another 46, an 89/11 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1021st, between Zefiryna (46) and Annamaria (45).
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#1019 Rosanna46
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#1020 Zefiryna46
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#1021 Zeynep46
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#1022 Annamaria45
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#1023 Katerina45