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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- “radiant lord”From Arabic and Turkic · KyrgyzBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “luminous, radiant”From Arabic and Turkic · KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “radiant lord”From Arabic and Turkic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “luminous moon”From Arabic and Persian · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “angel of light”From Arabic · TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “light of the praised one”From Arabic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “light of Muhammad”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “light of Muhammad”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Nur with the epithet Mirza”From Arabic and Persian · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “light of Muhammad”From Arabic · TurkmenBoy4 syllablesEditorial
- “light of the praised one”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesEditorial
- “wish of light”From Arabic · TurkmenBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “luminous beloved”From Arabic and Persian · TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “the name Nur with the suffix Nijat”From Arabic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “be light”From Arabic and Turkic · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “radiant essence”From Arabic and Turkic · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “shah of light”From Arabic and Persian · TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “spread light around”From Arabic and Turkic · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “light of goodness; good son”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “light with a good name”From Arabic and Turkic · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “light of purity; pure son”Uyghur, KazakhBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “light of the Lord; son given by God my Lord”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “spread light”From Arabic and Turkic · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “loving light”From Arabic and Turkic · TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “love of light”From Arabic and Turkic · TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “God's fortunate son”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “luminous face”From Arabic and Persian · TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “light + sultan”From Arabic · Kazakh, KyrgyzBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “crown of light”From Arabic and Persian · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “luminous dawn”From Arabic and Turkic · Turkish, KazakhBoy2 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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