How popular is the baby name Ayaz in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Ayaz.
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The transcontinental country of Turkey shares land borders with eight other nations: two (Greece and Bulgaria) on the European side and six (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, and Syria) on the Asian side.
In 2022, Turkey welcomed 1,035,795 babies — 48.6% were girls, and 51.4% were boys.
What were the most popular names among these babies? Zeynep and Alparslan.
Here are Turkey’s top 50 girl names and top 50 boy names of 2022:
Girl Names
Zeynep (has ranked either #1 or #2 for girls since 1999)
Asel (entered the top 100 in 2016; entered the top 10 in 2018)
Defne
Zümra
Elif
Asya
Azra
Nehir
Eylül
Ecrin
Elisa
Masal
Meryem
Lina
Ada
Eslem
Ebrar
Ela
Miray
Zehra
Yagmur
Duru
Gökçe (pronounced gok-cheh)
Alya
Günes (pronounced goo-NESH)
Buglem
Efnan (entered the top 100 in 2022)
The sudden trendiness of Efnan is likely due to the Turkish drama Aziz (2021-2022), which featured a character named Efnan. If this series ends up airing in the U.S. in Spanish (as other Turkish dramas have recently), we may see Efnan pop up the U.S. data soon as well.
Ikra
Esila
Kumsal
Öykü
Ipek
Arya
Mira
Sare
Hiranur
Nisa
Melisa
Ayse
Aysima
Umay (entered the top 100 in 2020)
Melek
Inci
Eliz (entered the top 100 in 2021)
Ahsen
Yüsra
Beren
Erva
Fatma
Belinay
Boy Names
Alparslan (entered the top 100 in 2016)
Yusuf (has ranked either #1 or #2 for boys since 2002)
Miraç
Göktug
Ömer Asaf
Eymen
Ömer
Aras
Mustafa
Ali Asaf
Kerem
Ali
Çinar
Hamza
Metehan
Ahmet
Poyraz
Muhammed
Mehmet
Muhammed Ali
Yigit
Atlas
Ayaz
Mert
Emir
Umut
Miran
Alperen
Kuzey
Ibrahim
Yunus Emre
Berat
Deniz
Yagiz
Aybars
Ege
Doruk
Eren
Hüseyin
Emirhan
Hasan
Furkan
Enes
Muhammed Alparslan (entered the top 100 in 2022)
Burak
Kaan
Efe
Rüzgar
Muhammed Emin
Abdullah
(Turkey’s baby name data consists of top-100 lists going back to 1980. So my notes above about names entering the top 100 only covers the last 43 years.)
The girls’ top 100 included Mihra (53rd), Neva (55th), Menesa (67th), and Asel Lina (79th).
The boys’ top 100 included Barlas (74th), Uraz (76th), Alp (87th), and Kivanç (96th).
The boy name Ragnar didn’t make Turkey’s top 100, but it did make headlines in Turkey in early 2022. That January, Güven and Sibel Arslan of the province of Diyarbakir welcomed a baby boy. They had agreed to name him Rüzgar (which means “wind” in Turkish), but Güven — a fan of the TV series Vikings — decided at the last minute to register the name Ragnar instead. Luckily, Sibel wasn’t upset about the switch, but she said she’d call the baby Rüzgar regardless.
Finally, here are Turkey’s 2021 rankings, if you’d like to compare last year to the year before.
Turkey is transcontinental: most of the country is located in Western Asia, but a portion is located in Southeastern Europe. Turkey shares land borders with Greece and Bulgaria on the European side, and six other countries (including Armenia and Azerbaijan) on the Asian side.
In 2021, Turkey welcomed 1,079,842 babies — 48.7% were girls, 51.3% were boys.
What were the most popular names among these babies? Zeynep and Yusuf.
Here are Turkey’s top 50 girl names and top 50 boy names of 2021:
Girl Names
Zeynep
Elif
Asel
Asya
Defne
Nehir – means “river” in Turkish.
Azra
Zümra – based on the Turkish word zümrüt, meaning “emerald.”
Eylül – means “September” in Turkish.
Ecrin
Meryem
Lina
Eslem
Masal – means “fairy tale” in Turkish.
Ebrar
Elisa
Ela
Alya
Zehra
Miray
Duru
Hiranur
Buglem
Ada
Yagmur – means “rain” in Turkish.
Esila
Ikra
Öykü – means “story” in Turkish.
Gökçe (pronounced gok-cheh) – based on the Turkish word gök, meaning “sky” or “blue.”
Melek
Günes (pronounced goo-NESH) – means “sun” in Turkish.
Arya
Melisa
Erva
Ipek – means “silk” in Turkish.
Ayse
Nisa
Kumsal – means “beach” in Turkish.
Aysima
Derin
Mira
Fatma
Sare
Ahsen
Eliz
Deniz
Beren
Hümeyra
Ikranur
Yüsra
Boy Names
Yusuf
Alparslan
Miraç
Ömer Asaf
Eymen
Göktug – like Gökçe, based on the Turkish word gök (“sky,” “blue”).
Ömer
Mustafa
Aras
Ali Asaf
Ahmet
Ali
Kerem
Poyraz – means “north wind” in Turkish; ultimately based upon the ancient Greek word boreas.
Hamza
Muhammed
Çinar
Mehmet
Metehan
Muhammed Ali
Ayaz
Emir
Yigit
Mert
Umut
Yunus Emre
Ibrahim
Alperen
Kuzey – means “north” in Turkish.
Miran
Deniz
Berat
Doruk – means “peak” or “mountaintop” in Turkish.
Furkan
Emirhan
Hasan
Hüseyin
Ege
Yagiz
Aybars
Enes
Atlas
Rüzgar – means “wind” in Turkish.
Burak
Abdullah
Muhammed Emin
Ertugrul
Ismail
Ömer Faruk
Eren
The girls’ top 100 included Hazal (55th), Ece (80th), Meva (94th), and Simay (98th).
The boys’ top 100 included Efe (65th), Bugra (75th), Demir (87th), and Cihangir (90th).
Looking for a pair of baby names that are mirror images of one another? If so, check out this long list of palindromic name pairings.
What’s a palindrome? It’s a word or phrase that can be read the same way in either direction, i.e., both forwards and backwards. For instance, the words “level,” “refer” and “pop” are all palindromes.
Each of the hundreds of pairings below features two names that contain the same sequence of letters, just written in opposite directions. (Nearly all of these names were collected from the SSA’s huge database of U.S. baby names.)
It’s also possible to come up with your own palindromic pairs by flipping traditional names to create brand new names, just as Ramon and Helen were flipped to create the modern names Nomar and Neleh.
If you’re on the hunt for baby names with a numerological value of 8, you’re in luck! Because today’s post features hundreds of 8-names.
Before we get to the names, though — how do we know that they’re “eights” in numerology?
Turning names into numbers
Here’s how to calculate the numerological value of a name.
First, for each letter, come up with a number to represent that letter’s position in the alphabet. (Letter A would be number 1, letter B would be number 2, and so forth.) Then, add all the numbers together. If the sum has two or more digits, add the digits together recursively until the result is a single digit. That single digit is the name’s numerological value.
For instance, the letters in the name Wyatt correspond to the numbers 23, 25, 1, 20, and 20. The sum of these numbers is 89. The digits of 89 added together equal 17, and the digits of 17 added together equal 8 — the numerological value of Wyatt.
Baby names with a value of 8
Below you’ll find the most popular 8-names per gender, according to the latest U.S. baby name data. I’ve further sub-categorized them by total sums — just in case any of those larger numbers are significant to anyone.
8
The letters in the following baby names add up to 8.
Girl name (8)
Boy name (8)
Bea
Abe
8 via 17
The letters in the following baby names add up to 17, which reduces to eight (1+7=8).
Girl names (8 via 17)
Boy names (8 via 17)
Gia, Bo, Afia, Eabha, Cala
Bo, Mac, Cam, Md, Jeb
8 via 26
The letters in the following baby names add up to 26, which reduces to eight (2+6=8).
Girl names (8 via 26)
Boy names (8 via 26)
Leah, Maci, Jana, Pia, Dua, Gema, Calia, Brea, Cami
Eli, Bear, Bode, Obed, Asaad, Adil
8 via 35
The letters in the following baby names add up to 35, which reduces to eight (3+5=8).
There’s no definitive answer, unfortunately, because various numerological systems exist, and each one has its own interpretation of the number eight. That said, if we look at a couple of modern numerology/astrology websites, we see 8 being described as “successful,” “ambitious,” “organized,” “practical,” and “authoritative.”
We can also look at associations, which are a bit more concrete. Here are some things that are associated with the number 8:
Figure 8
Infinity symbol
Analemma (diagram showing the position of the sun over the course of a year)
Figure-eight knot
Octopus (8 arms)
Spider (8 legs)
8-bit computing
8-track cartridge
Eight-ball (in pool)
Magic 8 Ball (fortune-telling toy)
Eight-ender (perfect score in the sport of curling)
What does the number 8 mean to you? What are your strongest associations with the number?
P.S. To see names with other numerological values, check out the posts for the numbers one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and nine.
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