Search names, meanings and origins from Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek and other Turkic languages, generate ideas that fit, or swipe together with your partner and keep the ones you both love.
Popular searches
1,164 names with meanings in 9 languages, 715 of them with a documented source. Press / to search from any page.
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Today
One girl's name, one boy's name and one unisex name, the same for every visitor and fresh each day.
A to Z
Every name on the site, grouped by its first letter. Greyed letters have no names yet.
Worth a look
Ranked by how many languages record the name, not by popularity. On the right, a rotating set of well-documented names to start with.
What visitors look for
Counted on this site only, from searches that led to a name page and from public likes. No visitor is identified, and nothing here is an official popularity statistic.
Names that visitors searched for and opened in the last 30 days.
Names that received the most likes in the last 30 days.
Can't agree?
Send your partner a private link. You each swipe through the same names on your own phone, and a name only shows up as a match once you have both kept it. There are no accounts and no sign-up: just a link.
Off the beaten path
922 names in our data are documented for a single language. Here are some of them, with the language shown.
Start from the feeling
Know what you want the name to say? Start from the meaning, then see which names carry it.
Explore
By where a name comes from, the language that uses it, what it means or how widely it is recorded.
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Pick the kind of name you want. Every suggestion is a real published name with its own page; nothing is invented.
1,164 names match
Decide together
Keep every name you like in one list, send the link, and give each name a score from one to five. Ranked by your combined scores, the list shows where you agree.
Illustration with sample scores, not real votes.
Reading
Guides on how names work across Turkic languages, how to read a meaning and how to choose with confidence.
Guide
Most Turkic names are made from a few recurring parts. Some are native Turkic words, many came from Arabic or Persian. Knowing the parts helps you read a name's meaning.
Guide
A Turkish name is a given name plus a surname. Parents may choose more than one given name, many names are unisex, and only letters of the Turkish alphabet can be registered.
Guide
Five parts appear in a large share of Turkic names. Here is what each one means, where it comes from and how it is spelled in different languages.
Guide
Gülnur, Гүлнұр and a Uyghur Arabic spelling can all be the same name. Here is why Turkic names change shape across alphabets, and how to choose a spelling.
