Zeki
A Turkish name meaning "intelligent, clever". In Poland it barely registers: only about two dozen men carry it, and the birth records show none given this century.
Zeki Pronunciation
Zeki is pronounced ZE-kee (/ˈzɛki/).
What Zeki means
Where Zeki comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zeki comes to Poland from Turkish, and it carries one clear meaning: intelligent, clever. The word goes back to the Arabic zaki, and Turkish speakers took it in as an everyday given name for boys. No Polish diminutive grew around it. It stays short.
One bearer fixed the name in Turkish memory. Zeki Müren, the singer who died on stage in 1996, was known across Turkey by that first name alone. His fame gave the plain adjective "clever" a public face.
On a Polish class register, Zeki would sit apart from the Kacpers and the Szymons, four unfamiliar letters. A teacher reading it aloud finds no local variant to lean on. The name means now what it has meant in Turkish all along: intelligent.
How many people are named Zeki
1 in 928095 men in Poland is named Zeki. 23 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9211 among male names.
Zeki as a middle name
Zeki is a first name for 23 men in Poland and a middle name for another 11, a 68/32 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3037th, between Zafar (11) and Árpád (11).
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#3035 Yvon11
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#3036 Zafar11
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#3037 Zeki11
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#3038 Árpád11
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#3039 Świętopełk11