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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- “bright light”From Arabic and Turkic · TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “light, shine, radiance + rich, wealthy”From Persian and Proto-Turkic · KazakhBoy2 syllablesLikely
- “everlasting light”From Arabic · TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “man of light”From Arabic and Turkic · TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “the name Nur with the epithet Beg”From Arabic and Turkic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “light + chief”From Arabic and Turkic · Kyrgyz, UzbekBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “light beauty mark”From Arabic and Turkic · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “light-given”From Arabic and Turkic · TurkmenBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “lady of light”From Arabic and Turkic · TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “be light”From Arabic and Turkic · KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “light and steel”From Persian and Classical Persian · KazakhBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “may there be light”From Arabic and Turkic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “light + soul”From Arabic and Persian · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesDocumented
- “light of the world”From Arabic and Persian · TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “mountain of light”From Arabic and Turkic · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “branch of light”From Arabic and Turkic · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “from light”From Arabic and Turkic · Turkish, KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “light”From Arabic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “light of the faith”Uyghur, KyrgyzBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “light + hawk”From Arabic and Proto-Turkic · TurkishUnisex3 syllablesLikely
- “prosperous son”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “light of the faith”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “light of the faith”From Arabic · AzerbaijaniBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “scattering light”From Arabic and Persian · TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “land of light”From Arabic and Turkic · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “son handsome as light”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “scattered light”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “man of light”From Arabic and Turkic · TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “may you be a man of light”From Arabic and Turkic · TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “light of the faith”From Arabic · Tatar, BashkirBoy3 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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