Female name

Zeynep

850 births (England and Wales, 1996–2025), peaking in 2016. Expression number: 1.

Origin

From Turkish Zeynep.

From Wiktionary, entry “Zeynep”, text under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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How many babies received it

From the official birth registers.

In England and Wales

470200020102020

Peak in 2016: 47 births. 850 births from 1996 to 2025. A name given mostly in the 2000s, 2010s and 2020s. It really came into use around 2000. It is still given: 198 births from 2021 to 2025.

Source: Office for National Statistics, Baby names in England and Wales, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Elsewhere in the world

The name in the birth records of the 10 countries we track. The period covered varies from country to country.

CountryBirthsPeriodBest rank
France3,1701900–2025—
Switzerland1,359*1915–2025—
Austria1,2391984–202588th in 2014
Argentina6122012–2023—
Berlin5462012–202384th in 2013
Belgium3462014–2023—

* These are the people living in the country, counted by year of birth, not the number of births.

Source: INSEE, Fichier des prénoms, Etalab Open Licence 2.0; Federal Statistical Office, First names of the population by year of birth, free use with attribution; Statistik Austria, Vornamen, CC BY 4.0; RENAPER, Nombres propios en Argentina, CC BY 4.0 (the registry doesn't record sex); Open Data Berlin, Häufige Vornamen, CC BY 3.0 DE (every name a child carries, not only the first); Statbel, first names of newborns, CC BY 4.0 (one total for the whole period, no yearly breakdown).

The numbers of the name

Each letter has a value: A = 1, B = 2… I = 9, then J = 1 again (Pythagorean method). We add them up, then reduce to a single digit, except 11, 22 and 33.

Z8E5Y7N5E5P7

■ vowel · ■ consonant

Expression

All the letters: talents, the way you act.

1

initiative, independence, beginnings

8 + 5 + 7 + 5 + 5 + 7 = 37 → 1

Soul

The vowels: what drives you deep down.

1

initiative, independence, beginnings

5 + 5 = 10 → 1

Personality

The consonants: what others notice first.

9

humanity, generosity, completion

8 + 7 + 5 + 7 = 27 → 9

Digits missing from the name
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9
Most frequent digit
5 · freedom, change, movement
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Your name and theirs

The number of each name, and the number of the bond, which comes from adding them together. A symbolic game: what your two names say together, to be read as a metaphor, not as a verdict on your relationship.