Given name & surname
Ceylan
“gazelle”
Ceylan is used as a given name and a surname. One Turkish interpretation is “gazelle.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Turkish interpretation is “gazelle.”
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1999. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ceylan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 0 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1999
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1999. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 368 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Ceylan
- CeylanTurkish singer (born 1974)
- Ceylan ArısanTurkish volleyball player (born 1994)
- Ceylan ErtemTurkish singer-songwriter (born 1980)
- Ceylan YeğinsuTurkish-British journalistborn 2000
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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