Language guide

Azerbaijani Names: Meanings, Origins & Traditions

Azerbaijani names are recorded in the Latin alphabet of the Republic of Azerbaijan, which includes the letter ə. Azerbaijani is closely related to Turkish, and many names are shared, but the site lists Azerbaijani usage only where a source documents it.

Azərbaycanca

Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family

Published names: 121
Scripts in our data: Latin
ISO 639-1: az

Browse Azerbaijani names

121 names · page 1 of 6

Abbas
“stern, frowning”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Abdullah
“servant of God”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Adil
“just, fair”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ahmet
“more praiseworthy; most praiseworthy”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ali
“high, exalted”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Alisher
“Ali + lion”
From Persian (from Arabic and Persian · Uzbek, Azerbaijani
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Amine
“safe, secure (feminine)”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Anar
“to light, to illuminate”
From Turkic · Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Arif
“knowing”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Asim
“protector”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Aygün
“moon + day, sun”
From Turkic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Unisex2 syllablesDocumented
Aynur
“moon + light”
From Turkic and Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Bağır
“opener, gate”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Bayram
“celebration, festival”
Turkish, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Bəhmən
“avalanche”
From Persian · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented

Bəşir
“bringer of good news, herald, harbinger”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Bəyan
“clearness, obviousness”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Cabir
“bonesetter, orthopedist”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Cavid
“eternal”
From Classical Persian · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Cəlil
“great, important”
From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Cemal
“beauty”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Cəmil
“beautiful”
From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ədhəm
“black”
From Azerbaijani · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Əkbər
“greater”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented

How Azerbaijani names are written

Azerbaijan switched from Cyrillic to Latin in 1991. In Iran, Azerbaijani is written in Arabic script, and in Dagestan (Russia) Cyrillic is still used. The letter ə has no equivalent in Turkish; search treats it like e but entries keep the original spelling.

Where Azerbaijani names come from

A name used in Azerbaijani is not automatically Azerbaijani in origin. Here is how the documented origins of the Azerbaijani names published so far break down (a name with elements from two languages counts under both):

Arabic
100
Persian
21
Azerbaijani
11
Turkic
9
Hebrew
6
Bashkir
2
Greek
1

Counted from 121 published entries. Each name page explains its own etymology with sources.

Azerbaijani names by meaning

Azerbaijani belongs to the Oghuz branch of the Turkic languages, together with Turkish and Turkmen. Related languages share many words, but a name is listed under a language only when it is documented there.

Other languages: Uyghur · Kazakh · Kyrgyz · Uzbek · Tatar · Bashkir

References for this page

Wikipedia contributors. Azerbaijani alphabet. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1382203157. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikipedia contributors. Turkic languages. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1377797900. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.