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1,601 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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22 names

  • Cabir

    “bonesetter, orthopedist”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Cafer

    “stream; full river”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Çağrı

    “call; announcement”
    Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Can

    “soul, life”
    From Persian · Turkish
    Boy1 syllableDocumented

  • Canan

    “beloved, darling”
    From Persian · Turkish
    Unisex2 syllablesDocumented

  • Candaş

    “soulmate, close friend”
    From Persian and Turkic · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Caner

    “soul + man, hero”
    From Persian and Turkic · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Cavid

    “eternal”
    From Classical Persian · Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Cavit

    “eternal”
    From Ottoman Turkish and Classical Persian · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Cefa

    “cruelty, torment”
    From Arabic · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesLikely

  • Cəlil

    “great, important”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Cem

    “Jam (Jamshid), legendary king; king, prince”
    From Persian · Turkish
    Boy1 syllableDocumented

  • Cemal

    “beauty”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Cəmil

    “beautiful”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Cenap

    “excellency, honour”
    From Arabic · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Cenk

    “war”
    From Persian · Turkish
    Boy1 syllableDocumented

  • Cesur

    “brave, bold”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Çetiner

    “tough man”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Cihan

    “world, universe”
    Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Çınar

    “plane tree”
    From Persian · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Civan

    “young, youthful”
    From Persian · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Cuma

    “Friday”
    From Arabic · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

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About these boy names

How many boy names are on TurkicNames?

1,601 published names are listed on this page. 656 have a meaning backed by a cited source (Documented), 143 are Likely, and 802 come from our own editorial research. Use the meaning label filter to see only one group.

Which languages contribute the most boy names?

Kazakh (635), Turkish (611), and Uyghur (306) 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. 1,276 names on this page are recorded for one language only, and 325 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 (129), strength and courage (69), and joy and happiness (50). 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 (663), Arabic (644), and Persian (238) 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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