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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
601
Scripts in our data
Latin
ISO 639-1
az

Browse Azerbaijani names

348 names · page 1 of 15

  • Abbas

    “stern, frowning”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Abdulla

    “servant of God”
    From Arabic · Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Abdullah

    “servant of God”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Adəm

    “man, made of earth”
    From Hebrew · Turkish, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Adil

    “just, fair”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Ahmet

    “more praiseworthy; most praiseworthy”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Turkmen
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Akif

    “devoted, steadfast”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Ali

    “high, exalted”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Alisher

    “Ali + lion”
    From Persian (from Arabic and Persian · Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Allahverdi

    “God-given”
    From Arabic and Turkic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
    Boy4 syllablesEditorial

  • Altay

    “the Altai mountains”
    From Turkic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Anar

    “to light, to illuminate”
    From Turkic · Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Aqil

    “intelligent, clever, wise”
    From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Arif

    “knowing”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Arslan

    “lion”
    From Proto-Turkic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Asif

    “storm, strong wind”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Asim

    “protector”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Aslan

    “lion”
    From Turkic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Atabey

    “atabeg, guardian lord”
    From Turkic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Atif

    “kind, affectionate”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Ayaz

    “cool-headedness; the winter season”
    From Turkic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy1 syllableDocumented

  • Aydın

    “moon of the faith”
    From Turkic and Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani
    Unisex2 syllablesDocumented

  • Aygün

    “moon + day, sun”
    From Turkic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
    Unisex2 syllablesDocumented

  • Ayxan

    “the name Ay with the suffix Khan”
    From Turkic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
    Girl2 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
    390
  • Persian
    155
  • Turkic
    86
  • Hebrew
    19
  • Azerbaijani
    11
  • Greek
    4
  • Bashkir
    3

Counted from 601 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 · Tajik

References for this page

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