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

23 names

Cabir
“bonesetter, orthopedist”
From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Cahangir
“world-conqueror”
From Persian · Azerbaijani
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Cahid
“striving, diligent”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Camal
“beauty”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Cavad
“generous”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Cavanşir
“young lion”
From Persian · Azerbaijani
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Cavid
“eternal”
From Classical Persian · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Cəfər
“stream, brook”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Cəlal
“majesty, glory”
From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Cəlil
“great, important”
From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Cemal
“beauty”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Cəmaləddin
“beauty of the faith”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Cəmil
“beautiful”
From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Cəmilə
“beautiful”
From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Cəmşid
“radiant Jam”
From Persian · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial

Cengiz
“mighty, universal ruler”
From Middle Mongol · Turkish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Cesur
“brave, bold”
From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Ceyhun
“the Amu Darya (Oxus) river”
From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Ceyran
“gazelle”
From Persian · Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Çiçək
“flower”
From Turkic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Çinarə
“plane tree”
From Persian · Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Çingiz
“mighty, universal ruler”
From Mongolic · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Coşqun
“ebullient, enthusiastic”
From Turkic · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial

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.