Entry № 11945 · Turkish origin

Zeynep Zeynep — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ZAY-nep /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Turkish
Meaning
"Beauty, ornament of father"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Turkish)

A name that means "beauty, ornament of father".

Zeynep is the Turkish form of the Arabic Zaynab — the name of the Prophet Muhammad's eldest daughter and granddaughter. The name comes from a fragrant flowering plant.

Zeynep is among the most popular girls' names in Turkey.

Beauty. The Turkish Zaynab.

The name in its native script.

Zeynep · زينب
Transliteration
Zeynep
Pronunciation
/ ˈzeɪ.nɛp /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Zeynep stands.

Zeynep does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Zeyneps before her.

Real people
Zeynep Tufekci
Turkish-American sociologist.
born 1966
In fiction
Zeynep
Common in Turkish fiction.

Names connected to Zeynep.

The number behind Zeynep.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Zeynep reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.