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.

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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 12 of 15

Şahmar
“king serpent”
From Persian · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Şaiq
“eager, longing”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Boy1 syllableEditorial
Şakir
“thankful”
From Ottoman Turkish and Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sakit
“quiet, calm”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Saleh
“righteous, virtuous”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Salman
“peaceful; fish; stone”
From Persian · Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Tatar
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sami
“high, elevated”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Tatar
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Şamil
“all-encompassing”
From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Samir
“evening companion in talk”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Səbri
“to be patient”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Səfər
“Safar (month); journey”
From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Şəhriyar
“lord, sovereign, king”
From Classical Persian · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Səid
“happy, cheerful, joyous”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Səlahəddin
“righteousness of the faith”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Selim
“safe, sound; healthy”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented

Səməd
“eternal, perpetual”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Şəmsəddin
“sun of the faith”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Şemsi
“of the sun”
From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Sənan
“spearhead”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Serdar
“commander, chief”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Şərif
“noble, honourable”
From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Sərvər
“leader, chief”
From Persian · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Sərxan
“chief khan”
From Persian and Turkic · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Səvab
“remuneration”
From Arabic · 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
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.