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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
276
Scripts in our data
Latin
ISO 639-1
az

Browse Azerbaijani names

276 names · page 1 of 12

  • Abbas

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

  • Abdullah

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

  • Adil

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

  • Afərin

    “bravo, well done”
    From Persian · Azerbaijani
    Girl3 syllablesEditorial

  • Ahmet

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

  • Ahu

    “gazelle, deer”
    From Persian · Turkish, Azerbaijani
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • 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

  • Aliye

    “high, exalted (feminine)”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Amine

    “safe, secure (feminine)”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Anar

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

  • Arif

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

  • Arifə

    “knowing, wise”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
    Girl3 syllablesEditorial

  • Arslan

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

  • Arzu

    “wish, desire”
    From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Asim

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

  • Atabey

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

  • Aydan

    “from the moon”
    From Turkic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Aygul

    “moon + flower”
    From Turkic and Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Bashkir
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Aygün

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

  • Aynur

    “moon + light”
    From Turkic and Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Ayşe

    “Aisha, wife of the Prophet Muhammad”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Aytaç

    “moon + crown”
    From Turkic and Arabic/Persian · Turkish, Azerbaijani
    Unisex2 syllablesDocumented

  • Bağır

    “opener, gate”
    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
    185
  • Persian
    81
  • Turkic
    38
  • Hebrew
    10
  • Azerbaijani
    10
  • Bashkir
    3
  • Greek
    2

Counted from 276 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.