Entry № 4596 · Turkish origin

İpek İpek — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EE-pek /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Turkish
Meaning
"Silk (Turkish)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Turkish)

A name that means "silk (turkish)".

İpek is the Turkish word for "silk" — evoking the legacy of the Silk Road that passed through Anatolia. A modern Turkish feminine name.

Used widely in modern Turkey.

Silk. The Turkish Silk Road word.

The name in its native script.

İpek
Transliteration
İpek
Pronunciation
/ ˈiː.pɛk /
Root
Grammatical form

Where İpek stands.

İpek does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

İpeks before her.

Real people
İpek
Common Turkish name.
In fiction
İpek
Common in Turkish fiction.

Names connected to İpek.

The number behind İpek.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of İpek reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.