Gizem
given name · Latin script
Meaning: mystery (something secret or unexplainable)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: Statistik Austria, 2024
/ɟiz̪em/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Gizem is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- CYCyprus≈1 in 590(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 820
- ATAustria≈1 in 21K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 588 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)mystery (something secret or unexplainable)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gizem 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 | #299 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 819 | register #98 | Gizem | 151 |
| CY Cyprus | #133 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 588 | — | Gizem | 21 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 497 | 1 in 35K | 497 | Gizem | 34 |
| FR France | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 147K | 655 | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 183 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Gizem | 20 |
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: the tr-tuik-child-stats register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)Gizem is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, Aklın erişemediği veya çözülemeyen şey, sır.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)- Gizem Sakab. 1978TRTurkish economist and painter (born 1978)
- Gizem Girişmenb. 1981TRTurkish para archer (born 1981)
- Gizem Soysaldıb. 1984TRTurkish actor (born 1984)
- Gizem Giraygilb. 1986TRTurkish volleyball player (born 1986)
- Gizem Erdoğanb. 1987SETurkish-Swedish actor (born 1987)
- Gizem Güreşenb. 1987TRTurkish volleyball player (born 1987)
- Gizem Memiçb. 1990TRTurkish beauty pageant titleholder (born 1990)
- Gizem Karacab. 1992TRTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1992)
- Gizem Örgeb. 1993TRTurkish volleyball player (born 1993)
- Gizem Emreb. 1995DETurkish-German actor of Kurdish ancestry (born 1995)
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)36 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2019 | 655 | #2,164 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 497 | #2,010 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 418 | #3,597 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 183 | #1,868 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 1 | #2,521 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 2012 | — | #98 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- How do you pronounce Gizem?
- In Turkish /ɟiz̪em/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Gizem mean, and where does it come from?
- mystery (something secret or unexplainable) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Gizem a male or female name?
- Gizem is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2019), Netherlands (Meertens NVB), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Austria (Statistik Austria, 2024), among others.
- In which country does Gizem have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 104 thousand people named Gizem in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gizem.
- How common is the name Gizem?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 497 people named Gizem, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
- How common is Gizem compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Gizem is the 299th 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/gizemThe 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, “Gizem” — the 299th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.