Pelin as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Pelin

What is the meaning of the name Pelin ?

The baby name Pelin is a girl name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced peh-LEEN.

Pelin is Slavic, Turkish in Origin.

Pelin is best explained as a Turkish feminine name taken from the common noun pelin, the wormwood or absinthe plant, Artemisia absinthium. Turkish borrowed the plant word from South Slavic, compare Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian pelin, with an earlier Proto-Slavic form usually reconstructed as *pelyně or *pelynь. Its literal sense is wormwood, a bitter, aromatic herb; in Turkish pelin otu is the fuller botanical phrase, with ot meaning grass or herb. Claims linking the name to Sanskrit horse or Greek dark reflect separate look-alike words.

As a given name, Pelin belongs chiefly to modern Turkish naming practice, especially Republican-era preferences for names drawn from nature and everyday Turkish vocabulary. Turkish actresses Pelin Karahan and Pelin Akil have kept the name visible in television culture. Outside Turkey it appears mainly in diaspora records, including rare U.S. births from the late twentieth century onward. Spellings such as Peylin or Pelinn are modern variants rather than older regional forms.