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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- “gaze, look”From Arabic · Turkish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Turkmen, Tatar, BashkirBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “attention (mental focus) + rich, wealthy”From Persian and Proto-Turkic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesLikely
- “lord of favour”From Persian and Proto-Turkic · Kazakh, KyrgyzBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “new, beautiful; observer, onlooker; eye; director”From Arabic · Uyghur, Kazakh, AzerbaijaniBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “destiny, lot”From Arabic · KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “intention”From Arabic · KazakhBoy1 syllableEditorial
- “intention + rich, wealthy”From Persian and Proto-Turkic · KazakhBoy2 syllablesLikely
- “need, necessity, want, requirement, neediness; scarcity; beggary”From Classical Persian and Persian · Uyghur, Kazakh, AzerbaijaniBoy1 syllableDocumented
- “order, regulation”From Arabic · Uyghur, KazakhBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “prince, nobleman”From Mongolic · Turkish, KazakhBoy1 syllableEditorial
- “light”From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, AzerbaijaniBoy1 syllableDocumented
- “light of justice”From Persian and Arabic · Uyghur, KazakhBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “superior to all; son handsome as light”Uyghur, Kazakh, UzbekBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “light of Ali”From Arabic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “luminous, bright”Turkish, Uyghur, KazakhBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “light, shine, radiance + rich, wealthy”From Persian and Proto-Turkic · KazakhBoy2 syllablesLikely
- “be light”From Arabic and Turkic · KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “light and steel”From Persian and Classical Persian · KazakhBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “may there be light”From Arabic and Turkic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “from light”From Arabic and Turkic · Turkish, KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “light”From Arabic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “light”From Arabic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “light has come”From Arabic and Turkic · Kazakh, TurkmenBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “light of the faith”From Arabic · Kazakh, UzbekBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “light + soul”From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur, Kazakh, KyrgyzBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “khan of light”From Persian and Kipchak · KazakhUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “be filled with light; become a handsome young man”From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur, Kazakh, KyrgyzBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “luminous, radiant”From Arabic and Turkic · KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “radiant lord”From Arabic and Turkic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “light of purity; pure son”Uyghur, KazakhBoy3 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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