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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- “proud, arrogant”KazakhBoy2 syllablesLikely
- “grandfather; ancestor + rich, wealthy”From Proto-Turkic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesLikely
- “palace tutor, tutor”Uyghur, Kazakh, KyrgyzBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “old gentleman”From Proto-Turkic · KazakhBoy2 syllablesLikely
- “of ancestral blood”From Turkic · Turkish, KazakhBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “father's wish”From Proto-Turkic and Arabic · KazakhBoy4 syllablesEditorial
- “first, beginning”From Arabic · KazakhBoy1 syllableEditorial
- “melody”From Persian · KazakhBoy1 syllableLikely
- “clear, manifest”From Turkic · KazakhBoy1 syllableEditorial
- “cool-headedness; the winter season”From Turkic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Tatar, BashkirBoy1 syllableDocumented
- “cool-headed young man”From Turkic · Uyghur, KazakhBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “moon + lord”From Turkic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, UzbekBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “bear + khan”From Proto-Turkic and Kipchak · KazakhBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “valiant young man, hero”From Classical Persian · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, BashkirBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “free”From Ottoman Turkish and Classical Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Turkmen, Tatar, BashkirBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “Azerbaijani, Azeri (by ethnicity)”KazakhBoy4 syllablesLikely
- “appearance + bey, beg, bek, master (component of many male given names)”From Arabic and Proto-Turkic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesLikely
- “hope, eagerness; cherished girl, beloved woman”Uyghur, KazakhBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “great khan”From Arabic and Turkic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “great soul”From Arabic and Persian · KazakhBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “powerful, mighty; dear, precious”From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, BashkirBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “dear khan”From Arabic and Turkic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “ancestor + khan (ruler over various Turkic and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages)”KazakhBoy3 syllablesLikely
- “ancestor + cherished goal”KazakhBoy4 syllablesLikely
- “ancestor + soul”KazakhBoy3 syllablesLikely
- “little father”From Persian · Kazakh, AzerbaijaniBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “name of a fruit”From Turkic · Uyghur, KazakhBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “direction, orientation”From Turkic · KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “god-given”From Persian · KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “young fattened lamb”From Turkic · KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
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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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