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: 601
Scripts in our data: Latin
ISO 639-1: az

Browse Azerbaijani names

348 names · page 10 of 15

Nusret
“help, support; victory”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ömer
“life, long life (suggested)”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Oruç
“fasting”
From Turkic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Orxan
“great khan”
From Turkic · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Osman
“little snake, young snake”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Pərviz
“fortunate, victorious”
From Persian · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Polad
“steel”
From Persian · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Pünhan
“hidden, secret”
From Persian · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Qadir
“powerful, capable”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Qafar
“inclined to forgive, forgiving”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qasım
“one who distributes”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Qay
“name of a tribe”
Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Qəhrəman
“hero”
From Persian · Azerbaijani
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Qeyrət
“zeal, sense of honour”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Qəzənfər
“lion”
From Persian · Azerbaijani
Boy3 syllablesEditorial

Qiyas
“comparison, analogy”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Boy1 syllableEditorial
Qorxmaz
“fearless”
From Azerbaijani · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qüdrət
“power, capacity, faculty”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qurban
“something offered to God”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Rafiq
“companion, friend”
From Arabic · Uzbek, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ramazan
“Ramadan”
From Arabic · Turkish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ramiz
“one who signals”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Rasim
“one who draws”
From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani, Tatar
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Rauf
“compassionate, merciful, gracious”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy1 syllableDocumented

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

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.