Meaning not yet researched.
Zeynep: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 90 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,555 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,555 in 2022; #2,098 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zeynep in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,098 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,555.
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Zeynep: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 90 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,555 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 138 (2022).
In 2025, 90 US girls were named Zeynep, making it the 2,098th most common girls’ name of the year, down 229 places from #1,869 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 108 girls named Zeynep in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,555, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 138. For comparison, it was #3,388 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zeynep in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 5 babies. In all, 1,454 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 663 babies named Zeynep.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 867 US girls were named Zeynep; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 138. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,859 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zeynep ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #1,166 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zainab (7,326 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Turkish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Zeynep in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,166 | #941 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,376 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,402 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,696 | — |
| Texas | 13 | #1,788 | #3,246 |
| California | 11 | #1,946 | — |
| New York | 6 | #2,068 | #1,758 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 90 | #2,098 | — | — |
| 2024 | 108 | #1,869 | — | — |
| 2023 | 130 | #1,613 | — | — |
| 2022 | 138 | #1,555 | — | — |
| 2021 | 84 | #2,231 | — | — |
| 2020 | 113 | #1,768 | — | — |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,271 | — | — |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,345 | — | — |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,871 | — | — |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,378 | — | — |
| 2015 | 48 | #3,388 | — | — |
| 2014 | 44 | #3,584 | — | — |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,702 | — | — |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,706 | — | — |
| 2011 | 49 | #3,348 | — | — |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,858 | — | — |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,376 | — | — |
| 2008 | 40 | #4,004 | — | — |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,566 | — | — |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,351 | — | — |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,135 | — | — |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,738 | — | — |
| 2003 | 20 | #6,052 | — | — |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,669 | — | — |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,317 | — | — |
| 2000 | 13 | #8,026 | — | — |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,710 | — | — |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,101 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | #9,016 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,885 | — | — |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,510 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,566 | — | — |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,475 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,460 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #15,229 | — | — |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,360 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,418 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,510 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #12,195 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).