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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- “light, brightess + stone”From Persian · KazakhBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Nur with the suffix Tay”From Arabic and Turkic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “prince of light”From Arabic and Turkic · TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “light of the good”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “light, shine, radiance + wish; want”KazakhBoy3 syllablesLikely
- “ball of light”From Arabic and Turkic · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “light of the faith”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “light of God; son given by God”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “light of God; son given by God”From Arabic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “light of God; son given by God”From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Tatar, BashkirBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “light of God”From Arabic · TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “light of my eyes”From Arabic and Turkic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “my son, the light of my eyes”From Arabic and Turkic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “give light”From Arabic and Turkic · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “luminous”From Arabic · TurkmenBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “light poured down”From Arabic and Turkic · TurkmenBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “light of freedom”Uyghur, Kazakh, KyrgyzBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “pious son”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “light spread over the earth; son of the earth”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “luminous woman”From Arabic and Persian · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “soul of light”From Arabic and Persian · KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “radiant young man”From Persian and Proto-Turkic · KazakhBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “water of immortality”From Persian · TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “help, victory”From Arabic · UzbekUnisex2 syllablesDocumented
- “help, support; victory”From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, AzerbaijaniBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “help of the faith”From Arabic · TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “share, portion, lot (of something); destiny, fate, lot”From Arabic · KazakhBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “good news”From Persian · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “commander, lord”From Mongolic · TurkishUnisex1 syllableEditorial
- “pleasure, delight”From Arabic · TurkishUnisex2 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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