Kuzey
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- koo-ZAY
- Origin
- Turkish
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,087 for boys
- US rank, 2025
- #5,207 for boys
Kuzey is a boys' name of Turkish origin, meaning “north”. In 2025 it ranked 2,087th for boys in the UK (12 babies) and 5,207th for boys in the US (18 babies).
What does Kuzey mean?
Turkish: Turkish word name
“north”
A modern Turkish name taken directly from the everyday word for north.
Is Kuzey a girl's or a boy's name?
Kuzey is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 boys in the UK and 18 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kuzey in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,087th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 25,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 32% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 12 boys in the UK were named Kuzey, making it the 2,087th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,581st. Its busiest year was 2012, with 25 boys.
Half of all the boys named Kuzey in the UK since 1996 were born between 2014 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among boys in 2025, it was 2,011th in England and Wales.
Kuzey in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #2,087 |
| 2024 | 15 | #1,745 |
| 2023 | 12 | #2,024 |
| 2022 | 13 | #1,886 |
| 2021 | 11 | #2,100 |
| 2020 | 16 | #1,581 |
| 2019 | 23 | #1,230 |
| 2018 | 18 | #1,486 |
| 2017 | 25 | #1,197 |
| 2016 | 20 | #1,403 |
| 2015 | 17 | #1,535 |
| 2014 | 12 | #1,929 |
| 2013 | 17 | #1,493 |
| 2012 | 25 | #1,166 |
| 2011 | 13 | #1,788 |
| 2010 | 8 | #2,534 |
How popular is Kuzey in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,207th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 18 about 1 in 95,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 18 boys in the US were named Kuzey, making it the 5,207th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,734th. It first appears in the records in 2009.
It has been given to more boys each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most boys named Kuzey of any year since it first appeared, in 2009.
Half of all the boys named Kuzey in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Kuzey in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #5,207 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,827 |
| 2023 | 8 | #8,916 |
| 2022 | 6 | #10,855 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,820 |
| 2020 | 8 | #8,734 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,099 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,032 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,091 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,785 |
| 2015 | 11 | #7,061 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,102 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,113 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,495 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,353 |
| 2009 | 6 | #10,989 |
Names like Kuzey
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Koa, Finley, Oakley, Huxley, Kairo, Albie, Renley, Eesa, Luca, Orhan, Kingsley, Musa
More Turkish names
Ayla, Aylin, Alara, Ayda, Ayzel, Kaya, Aydin, Aslan, Eren, Evren, Ayaz, Ela, Aylah, Aleyna, Deniz, Demir
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Kuzey: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kuzey, updated 20 October 2026.