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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- “of Turkic descent”From Turkic · TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “law, rule”From Arabic · TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “name of a Göktürk khagan (reigned 691-716)”From Turkic · TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “mind; spirit”From Turkic · Turkish, KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “large ring fixed in a fortress wall; flag”From Turkic · TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “tiger”From Turkic · TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “captain”TurkishBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “black; dark”From Turkic · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “dark-complexioned hero”From Turkic · TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “bachelor; a hardy winter wheat”From Turkic · TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “cormorant, a black fish-eating seabird”From Turkic · TurkishBoy4 syllablesEditorial
- “dark-featured lord”From Turkic · TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “kinship”From Arabic · TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “dark-featured chief”From Turkic · TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “black bull”From Turkic · TurkishUnisex4 syllablesEditorial
- “black wolf”From Turkic · TurkishUnisex4 syllablesEditorial
- “the common people”From Turkic · TurkishBoy4 syllablesEditorial
- “dark stud camel”From Turkic · TurkishBoy4 syllablesEditorial
- “powerful wrestler”From Turkic · TurkishBoy4 syllablesEditorial
- “dark rain cloud”From Turkic · TurkishBoy4 syllablesEditorial
- “roe deer”From Turkic · TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “a Turkish commander renowned for heroism”From Turkic · TurkishUnisex4 syllablesEditorial
- “dark wolf”From Turkic · TurkishBoy4 syllablesEditorial
- “dark-featured beloved”From Turkic and Persian · TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “evil spirits”From Turkic · TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “a Turkic people”From Turkic · TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “dark steel”From Turkic · TurkishBoy4 syllablesEditorial
- “black mountain”From Turkic · TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “dark iron”From Turkic · TurkishBoy4 syllablesEditorial
- “Black Sea”From Turkic · TurkishUnisex4 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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