Turkic Languages and Their Names
Turkic languages share many name elements, but each language has its own spellings, scripts and naming habits. We document every language separately: a name appears under a language only when a source records it there. Language here means a language, not an ethnic group.
Turkish
Türkçe
Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family
Turkish is the largest Oghuz Turkic language. Its given names mix native Turkic words with many Arabic and Persian names inherited through Ottoman Turkish.
541 documented Turkish namesUyghur
ئۇيغۇرچە
Karluk branch of the Turkic language family
Uyghur is a Karluk Turkic language. Names are written in the Uyghur Arabic script, with Latin and Cyrillic spellings used outside China.
218 documented Uyghur namesKazakh
Қазақ тілі
Kipchak branch of the Turkic language family
Kazakh is a Kipchak Turkic language. Names are recorded in Kazakh Cyrillic, with Latin spellings where sources give them.
533 documented Kazakh namesKyrgyz
Кыргыз тили
Kipchak branch of the Turkic language family
Kyrgyz is a Kipchak Turkic language written in Cyrillic in Kyrgyzstan and in an Arabic-based script in China.
42 documented Kyrgyz namesUzbek
Oʻzbekcha
Karluk branch of the Turkic language family
Uzbek is a Karluk Turkic language, closely related to Uyghur, written in Latin and also in Cyrillic.
44 documented Uzbek namesAzerbaijani
Azərbaycanca
Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family
Azerbaijani is an Oghuz Turkic language written in Latin in Azerbaijan and in Arabic script in Iran.
121 documented Azerbaijani namesTurkmen
Türkmençe
Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family
Turkmen is an Oghuz Turkic language written in a Latin alphabet that is official in Turkmenistan.
5 documented Turkmen namesTatar
Татар теле
Kipchak branch of the Turkic language family
Tatar is a Kipchak Turkic language of the Volga region, written in Cyrillic in Tatarstan.
6 documented Tatar namesBashkir
Башҡорт теле
Kipchak branch of the Turkic language family
Bashkir is a Kipchak Turkic language of Bashkortostan, written in Cyrillic with additional letters.
67 documented Bashkir names