Ipek
İpek is a common feminine Turkish given name. In Turkish, "İpek" means "Silk".
- Turkish
Meaning & Origin of Ipek
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
İpek is a common feminine Turkish given name. In Turkish, "İpek" means "Silk".
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Turkish
The Story of Ipek
Ipek first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 2004, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2018: 10 births, good for #9,802 nationwide. About 74% of every Ipek on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Ipek last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 8 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 73 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 2000s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Notable people named Ipek
A small selection from Wikipedia. Tap "Read more" below to see the full list on Wikipedia.
- İpek Çalışlar , a writer
- İpek Derici (born 1990), a basketball player
- İpek Emiroğlu (born 1992), Turkish female football referee
- İpek Filiz Yazıcı (born 2001), Turkish actress
- İpek Kaya (born 1994), Turkish-French women's footballer
- İpek Özkök (born 1982), Turkish actress and model
- İpek Soroğlu (born 1985), Turkish volleyball player
- İpek Soylu (born 1996), Turkish tennis player
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Names that sound like Ipek
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About the name Ipek
Ipek is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 2004 and has accumulated 73 births in the dataset. Ipek's peak popularity came in 2018 when it ranked #9,802. Use the chart and map above to compare Ipek's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.