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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- “light + sultan”From Arabic · Kazakh, KyrgyzBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “luminous dawn”From Arabic and Turkic · Turkish, KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “light, brightess + stone”From Persian · KazakhBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “light, shine, radiance + wish; want”KazakhBoy3 syllablesLikely
- “light of freedom”Uyghur, Kazakh, KyrgyzBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “soul of light”From Arabic and Persian · KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “radiant young man”From Persian and Proto-Turkic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “share, portion, lot (of something); destiny, fate, lot”From Arabic · KazakhBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “benefit”From Arabic · KazakhBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “target, aim”From Arabic · KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “free; forceful, competitive, watchful, defiant”From Turkic · Uyghur, KazakhBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “life, long-lived”From Arabic · KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “life, long life (suggested)”From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani, BashkirBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “life”From Arabic · KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “lifetime, lifespan, life + rich, wealthy”From Persian and Proto-Turkic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesLikely
- “lord of life”From Persian and Proto-Turkic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “lifetime, lifespan, life + khan (ruler over various Turkic and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages)”From Persian and Kipchak · KazakhBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “long life”From Arabic and Turkic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “may it go well”From Turkic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “production, manufacture”KazakhBoy3 syllablesLikely
- “skilled lord”From Turkic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “optimal time, favorable moment, opportunity”KazakhBoy2 syllablesLikely
- “sickle”From Proto-Turkic · KazakhBoy2 syllablesLikely
- “the Ural”From Turkic · Kazakh, BashkirBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “fast (of Ramadan)”From Persian · Kazakh, TurkmenBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “came during the fast”From Persian and Turkic · Kazakh, TurkmenBoy4 syllablesEditorial
- “forest”From Turkic · KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “forester”KazakhBoy3 syllablesLikely
- “place; position + chieftain, master”From Proto-Turkic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “little snake, young snake”From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, TurkmenBoy2 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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