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 24 of 26

Xalidə
“eternal”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Xanım
“lady”
From Turkic · Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Xanlar
“khans”
From Turkic · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Xatirə
“memory, remembrance”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Xavər
“the east”
From Persian · Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Xədicə
“born early”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Xəlil
“a close friend, an intimate”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Xəyal
“dream, imagination”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Boy1 syllableEditorial
Xəyalə
“dream, imagination”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Xosrov
“of good fame”
From Persian · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Xumar
“longing, one longed for, one remembered, keepsake, legacy”
From Turkic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Xurşid
“the sun”
From Persian · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Yadigar
“keepsake, memento, souvenir, dedication, gift”
Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Yalçın
“steep, sheer”
From Turkic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Yaqub
“later-born (second baby); male of a bird; servant of God”
From Hebrew · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented

Yaqut
“a kind of precious stone”
From Persian · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Yaşar
“he lives; long-lived”
From Turkic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Yasəmən
“jasmine”
From Persian · Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Yaver
“helper, aide”
From Persian · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Yeganə
“unique, sole, single, one”
From Classical Persian · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Yəhya
“life, livelihood; to live, may he live”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Yunus
“Jonah (name of the prophet)”
From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Yusif
“he will add”
From Hebrew · Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Zahid
“pious, devout”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Tatar
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.