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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- “knowing, expert”From Arabic · Tatar, BashkirBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “the Knower of God”From Arabic · KazakhBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “the Knower of God”From Arabic · Tatar, BashkirBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “stranger; forlorn; strange; touching”From Arabic · TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “old one, elder”From Turkic · TurkmenBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “stranger, wanderer”From Arabic · TurkmenBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “one who breaks bread into crumbs”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “one who attains (a goal or destination)”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “one who spreads blessings widely”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “gift”From Arabic · TatarBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “gift of God”From Arabic · TatarBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “relating to help or support; one who dives deep”From Arabic · TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “help, aid”From Arabic · TatarBoy1 syllableEditorial
- “aim, goal”From Arabic · TurkishUnisex1 syllableEditorial
- “carefree”From Turkic · TurkmenBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “one, single, alone”UyghurBoy1 syllableDocumented
- “zeal, energy”From Arabic · UzbekBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “effort, zeal”From Arabic · TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “one, single, alone”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “lion”From Arabic · TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “ghazal (a lyric poem form)”TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “veteran warrior”From Arabic · TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “dear, precious”From Arabic · Tatar, BashkirBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “mountain pass; notch; privilege; high place”From Turkic · TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “chief of the pass”From Turkic · TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “lord of the pass”From Turkic · TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “stone of the pass”From Turkic · TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “the Gediz river”From unknown · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “he came, has arrived”From Turkic · TurkmenBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “the wish has come true”From Turkic and Arabic · TurkmenBoy4 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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