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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27 names
- “free; forceful, competitive, watchful, defiant”From Turkic · Uyghur, KazakhBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “lifetime, lifespan, life + rich, wealthy”From Persian and Proto-Turkic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesLikely
- “lord of life”From Persian and Proto-Turkic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “long life”From Arabic and Turkic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “the Ural”From Turkic · Kazakh, BashkirBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “fast (of Ramadan)”From Persian · Kazakh, TurkmenBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “he will grow”From Turkic · KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “bold, determined”From Turkic · KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “guardian, friend”From Arabic · KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “little servant of God”From Arabic · UzbekBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “children”From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh, KyrgyzBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “reach, arrive”From Turkic · Turkish, KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “familiarity, intimacy, accustoming”From Arabic · Uzbek, BashkirBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “great lord”From Turkic · UzbekBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “great lord”From Turkic · KyrgyzBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “great, exalted”From Turkic · KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “great lord”From Turkic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “life, long-lived”From Arabic · Turkish, UzbekBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “trust, faith; hope”From Arabic · Uyghur, Uzbek, AzerbaijaniBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “hope + rich, wealthy”From Persian and Proto-Turkic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesLikely
- “the Ural Mountains”From Turkic · Turkish, BashkirBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “fortune, happiness”From Turkic · Tatar, BashkirBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “respect, honour”From Arabic · KyrgyzBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “honoured lord”From Arabic and Turkic · KyrgyzBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “young bustard (a bird)”From Arabic · UzbekBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “long (life)”From Turkic · KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “long in time, lasting a long time, having a long duration + rich, wealthy”From Proto-Turkic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesLikely
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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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