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

601 names · page 12 of 26

Kübra
“the greatest, the greater”
From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Laləzar
“tulip garden”
From Persian · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Lamiyə
“shining, gleaming”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Ləman
“shining, sparkling”
From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Letafet
“grace, delicacy”
From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Lətif
“gentle, kind”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Lətifə
“gentle, kind”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Ləyaqət
“dignity, worthiness”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Leyla
“night (via the Semitic source of the name)”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Mahir
“skilled, deft”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Mahire
“skilled, deft”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Mahmud
“praised”
From Arabic · Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Mahmut
“praised, praiseworthy”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Mahnur
“moonlight”
From Persian and Arabic · Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Mahpare
“beautiful, like the moon, child of the moon”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesDocumented

Mahrux
“moon-faced”
From Persian · Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Malik
“king, sovereign, monarch”
From Arabic · Turkish, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Maral
“red deer doe”
From Turkic · Turkish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani, Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Məcid
“glorious”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Medine
“Medina; literally 'the city'”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Mehbube
“beloved”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Mehdi
“rightly guided”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Məhəbbət
“love, affection”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Məhəmməd
“praised, praiseworthy”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Boy3 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.