“name of Farhad, Shirin's lover in the romance Khosrow and Shirin”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
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
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):
- Arabic390
- Persian155
- Turkic86
- Hebrew19
- Azerbaijani11
- Greek4
- Bashkir3
Counted from 601 published entries. Each name page explains its own etymology with sources.
Azerbaijani names by meaning
Explore related languages
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.