Ipek
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name which means "silk"
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/ipec/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ipek is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
- CYCyprus≈1 in 1.9K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈66,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a female given name which means "silk"
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ipek 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 | #342 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 2.5K | Ipek | 113 |
| CY Cyprus | #219 | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Ipek | 11 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 3 | Ipek | 8 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 70 | — | — |
| FR France | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 215K | 61 | — | 3 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 85 | Ipek | 16 |
| US United States | — | 296 | 1 in 1.1M | 296 | Ipek | 118 |
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: TÜİK NIP — newborn names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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)Ipek is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, silk
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, 1. Bir tür böceğin ördüğü kozadan elde edilen ve kumaş yapımında kullanılan ince parlak tel ve bundan yapılan kumaş. 2. Zarif, kibar, ince.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In gag, silky, of silk
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- İpek Bilginb. 1956TRTurkish actor (born 1956)
- İpek Tenolcayb. 1970TRTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1970)
- İpek Şenoğlub. 1979TRTurkish tennis player (born 1979)
- Melike İpek Yalovab. 1984TRTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1984)
- İpek Yaylacıoğlub. 1984TRTurkish actor (born 1984)
- İpek Karapınarb. 1984TRTurkish actor (born 1984)
- İpek Kıraçb. 1984TRTurkish businessperson (born 1984)
- İpek Soylub. 1996TRTurkish tennis player (born 1996)
- İpek Özb. 1999TRTurkish tennis player (born 1999)
- İpek Filiz Yazıcıb. 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)46 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 85 | #17,611 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 61 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 45 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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
- How do you pronounce Ipek?
- A machine transcription gives /ipec/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Ipek mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name which means "silk" Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ipek a male or female name?
- Ipek is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Türkiye (TÜİK NIP, 2025), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- In which country does Ipek have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 66 thousand people named Ipek in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ipek.
- How common is the name Ipek?
- In the United States, the national register counted 296 people named Ipek in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Ipek compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Ipek is the 342nd most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ipekThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Ipek” — the 342nd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.