Zeynep is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning “her father’s jewel.” In 2024 it was given to 108 girls in the United States.
Zeynep at a glance
Gender
Girl name
Origin
Muslim & Arabic · Turkish
Meaning
“her father’s jewel”
About the name Zeynep
Zeynep belongs to the Muslim & Arabic and Turkish tradition. Its meaning — “her father’s jewel” — is the sense carried by its Arabic roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Zeynep first appears in Social Security records in 1981. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1554 in 2022, and in 2024 108 babies received the name — 1,363 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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