11,198 Turkic Boy Names with Meanings
Boy names from Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek and other Turkic languages, each with its meaning. Names recorded for both boys and girls are included and marked as unisex.
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- “stern, frowning”From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, BashkirBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “servant of God”From Arabic · Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, BashkirBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “servant of God”From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, BashkirBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “shady, darkened much, almost black”From Arabic · Tatar, BashkirBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “moon lord”From Turkic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, BashkirBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “moon + steel”From Proto-Turkic and Classical Persian · Kazakh, BashkirBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “moon steel”From Turkic and Persian · Tatar, BashkirBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “forelock, tuft of hair”From Turkic · Kazakh, Tatar, BashkirBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “moon wanderer”From Turkic · BashkirBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “moonlight”From Turkic and Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, BashkirUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “wonder, amazement”From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, BashkirBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “white steel”From Turkic and Persian · BashkirBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “most praised”From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, BashkirBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “most perfect”From Arabic · Uzbek, Tatar, BashkirBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “most generous”From Arabic · Uzbek, Tatar, BashkirBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “noble and bright”From Germanic · Tatar, BashkirBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “high, exalted”From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, BashkirBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “diamond”From Turkic · Uyghur, Kazakh, BashkirBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “diamond”From Persian and Arabic · Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani, Tatar, BashkirUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “flourishing, one who brings prosperity; commander, one who orders”From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, BashkirBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “brighter, most radiant”From Arabic · Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, BashkirBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “knowing”From Arabic · Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, BashkirBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “lion”From Proto-Turkic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, BashkirBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “happiest, most fortunate”From Arabic · Tatar, BashkirBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “army, soldiers”From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, BashkirBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “forelock, topknot”From Bashkir · BashkirBoy1 syllableDocumented
- “cool-headedness; the winter season”From Turkic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Tatar, BashkirBoy1 syllableDocumented
- “moon + light”From Turkic and Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, BashkirGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “moon + relative, kin”From Bashkir · BashkirBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “valiant young man, hero”From Classical Persian · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, BashkirBoy3 syllablesDocumented
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About these boy names
How many boy names are on TurkicNames?
11,198 published names are listed on this page. 3,903 have a meaning backed by a cited source (Documented), 298 are Likely, and 6,997 come from our own editorial research. Use the meaning label filter to see only one group.
Which languages contribute the most boy names?
Turkish (6,175), Uyghur (3,474), and Kazakh (1,075) lead the list. A name counts for a language only when our data records it for that language, so a name used in several languages is counted once for each.
Can a boy's name here also be used for the other gender?
Yes, sometimes. Names marked Unisex are included in this list because they are recorded for both genders in at least one language. 10,487 names on this page are recorded for one language only, and 711 for two or more; the language table on each name page shows the gender per language.
What do boy names here most often mean?
By documented meaning theme, the biggest groups are leadership and nobility (980), strength and courage (715), and nature and seasons (425). Themes come from the meaning of each name as recorded on its page, never from how a name looks or sounds.
Which origins appear most often?
Our origin rows show Turkic (4,744), Arabic (4,113), and Persian (1,475) most often. Origin describes where the name's parts come from, not which people use it, so an Arabic name can be thoroughly Turkic in everyday use.
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