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464 Turkic Girl Names with Meanings

Girl names from Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek and other Turkic languages, each with its meaning. Names recorded for both girls and boys are included and marked as unisex.

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  • Makbule

    “accepted, pleasant”
    From Ottoman Turkish · Turkish
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Makpal

    “velvet”
    From Classical Persian and Arabic · Kazakh
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Malike

    “queen”
    From Arabic · Kazakh
    Girl3 syllablesLikely

  • Mamyk

    “down (on birds)”
    From Chagatai · Kazakh
    Girl2 syllablesLikely

  • Maral

    “doe, female deer”
    From Classical Mongolian · Turkish, Kazakh
    Girl2 syllablesLikely

  • Marise

    “bee, honey”
    From West Circassian and Ancient Greek · Turkish
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Marzhan

    “small pearls; corals”
    From Arabic and Classical Syriac and Ancient Greek · Kazakh
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Maue

    “fruit”
    From Persian · Kazakh
    Girl1 syllableLikely

  • Medine

    “Medina; literally 'the city'”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Mehriban

    “kind”
    From Azerbaijani · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Mehtap

    “moonlight”
    From Persian · Turkish
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Meiiz

    “raisin”
    From Persian · Kazakh
    Girl1 syllableLikely

  • Meläwşä

    “violet”
    From Bashkir · Bashkir
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Melek

    “angel”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani
    2 syllablesDocumented

  • Meliha

    “beautiful, graceful, elegant”
    From Ottoman Turkish and Arabic · Turkish
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Melike

    “queen”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Melis

    “bee (via the Greek name Melissa)”
    From Greek · Turkish
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Melodi

    “melody (sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase)”
    From French · Turkish
    Girl3 syllablesLikely

  • Meltem

    “sea breeze”
    From Ottoman Turkish · Turkish
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Menekşe

    “violet, any flowering plant of the genus Viola”
    From Classical Persian · Turkish
    Girl3 syllablesLikely

  • Meryem

    “Mary (mother of Jesus)”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Mimoza

    “mimosa, blue wattle, silver wattle”
    From French · Turkish, Kazakh
    Girl3 syllablesLikely

  • Mine

    “enamel, glaze”
    From Persian · Turkish
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Miras

    “inheritance; heritage”
    From Persian and Arabic · Kazakh
    Unisex2 syllablesDocumented

  • Mırzayım

    “chieftain, master + chieftain, mistress”
    From Kyrgyz · Kyrgyz
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Mısra

    “line”
    From Arabic · Turkish
    Girl2 syllablesLikely

  • Mubarek

    “blessed, fortunate”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Müge

    “mouse”
    From French and fro and Latin and Ancient Greek and Middle Persian and Sanskrit and ine-pro and English · Turkish
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Muhteşem

    “spectacular, magnificent, splendid”
    From Arabic · Turkish
    Unisex3 syllablesLikely

  • Müjde

    “good news”
    From Proto-Iranian · Turkish
    Girl2 syllablesLikely

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About these girl names

How many girl names are on TurkicNames?

464 published names are listed on this page. 300 have a meaning backed by a cited source (Documented), 164 are Likely, and 0 come from our own editorial research. Use the meaning label filter to see only one group.

Which languages contribute the most girl names?

Turkish (260), Kazakh (178), and Uyghur (86) 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 girl'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. 377 names on this page are recorded for one language only, and 87 for two or more; the language table on each name page shows the gender per language.

What do girl names here most often mean?

By documented meaning theme, the biggest groups are moon (17), nature and seasons (16), and flowers (14). 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 Arabic (173), Persian (143), and Turkic (137) 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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