Ece
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ece is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 1. Başkan, ulu, ileri gelen.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 46K
- USUnited States1 in 1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈49,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. Başkan, ulu, ileri gelen. 2. Ak sakallı ihtiyar. 3. Arkadaş, dost.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ece counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #470 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | #80 | Ece | 141 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Ece | 84 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 5 | Ece | 6 |
| CY Cyprus | #295 | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Ece | 16 |
| US United States | — | 326 | 1 in 1M | 321 | Ece | 150 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 119 | Ece | 21 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 42 | Ece | 19 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ece is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. Kraliçe. 2. Güzel kadın. 3. Büyük kardeş. 4. Ana.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary, per-gender-row harvest)
In English, Initialism of electrical and computer engineering.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, ache
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Ecēšana
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Ķilda
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ece Ayhanb. 1931TRTurkish poet and writer (1931–2002)
- Ece Yörençb. 1962TRTurkish screenwriter (born 1962)
- Ece Temelkuranb. 1973TRTurkish journalist and newscaster (born 1973)
- Ece Uslub. 1974TRTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1974)
- Ece Dizdarb. 1979TRTurkish actor (born 1979)
- Ece Çeşmioğlub. 1990TRTurkish actor (born 1990)
- Eda Eceb. 1990TRTurkish actor (born 1990)
- Ece Seçkinb. 1991TRTurkish singer (born 1991)
- Ece Yükselb. 1997TRTurkish actor (born 1997)
- Ece Aydemirb. 2001TRTurkish actor (born 2001)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 42 | #21,267 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Ece have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 49 thousand people named Ece in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ece.
- What does the name Ece mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Başkan, ulu, ileri gelen.
- Is Ece a male or female name?
- Ece is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Ece?
- In the United States, the national register counted 326 people named Ece in 2020, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
- How common is Ece compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Ece is the 470th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ece” — the 470th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.