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Kazakh Names: Meanings, Origins & Traditions

Kazakh names are listed here in Kazakh Cyrillic, the alphabet used in Kazakhstan, together with any Latin spelling that our sources record. Many Kazakh names are compounds of native words, such as ай 'moon' or жан 'soul', and others come from Arabic and Persian. Kazakhstan has decided to move from Cyrillic to a Latin alphabet, a transition now scheduled to finish by 2031, so Latin spellings of the same name can still vary.
Қазақ тілі
Kipchak branch of the Turkic language family
Published names
533
Scripts in our data
Cyrillic, Latin
ISO 639-1
kk

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533 names · page 1 of 23

  • 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

  • Abyz

    “priest”
    From Arabic · Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesLikely

  • Adam

    “human, person”
    From Classical Persian · Uyghur, Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Ademi

    “beautiful”
    From Arabic · Kazakh
    Girl3 syllablesLikely

  • Adil

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

  • Adilkhan

    “fair, just, equitable + khan (ruler over various Turkic and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages)”
    From Arabic and Kipchak · Kazakh
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Adina

    “Friday”
    From Persian · Kazakh
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Ahmet

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

  • Aibar

    “moon + there is / there are, there exist”
    From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Aibike

    “moon + girl, lass”
    From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Aibolat

    “moon + steel”
    From Proto-Turkic and Classical Persian · Kazakh, Bashkir
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Aida

    “return, gain, yield, profit, dividends etc.”
    From Arabic · Kazakh
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Aidana

    “moon + wise”
    From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Aidos

    “moon + friend”
    From Proto-Turkic and Classical Persian · Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Aiganym

    “moon + madame, Mrs”
    From Persian and Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Aigerim

    “moon + noble, generous”
    From Turkic and Arabic · Kazakh
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Aimak

    “aimag (various historical or modern Turkic or Mongolian provinces)”
    From Middle Mongol · Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesLikely

  • Aimauyt

    “chain mail, hauberk”
    Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesLikely

  • Aina

    “mirror”
    From Persian · Kazakh
    Girl2 syllablesLikely

  • Ainek

    “glass (substance)”
    From Classical Persian · Kazakh
    Girl2 syllablesLikely

  • Aishyk

    “crescent”
    Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesLikely

  • Ait

    “holiday, feast day, eid”
    From Classical Persian · Kazakh
    Boy1 syllableLikely

  • Aitugan

    “moon + to be born”
    From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

How Kazakh names are written

Kazakh Cyrillic adds letters such as ә, ғ, қ, ң, ө, ұ, ү, һ and і to the Russian alphabet. A 2017 decree started a move to Latin script, later pushed back to 2031. Kazakhs in China, Iran and Afghanistan use an Arabic-based script. Latin forms on this site are shown only where a source records them.

Where Kazakh names come from

A name used in Kazakh is not automatically Kazakh in origin. Here is how the documented origins of the Kazakh names published so far break down (a name with elements from two languages counts under both):

  • Arabic
    180
  • Persian
    175
  • Turkic
    124
  • Kipchak
    17
  • Mongolic
    8
  • Russian
    7
  • Hebrew
    5

Counted from 533 published entries. Each name page explains its own etymology with sources.

Kazakh names by meaning

Kazakh belongs to the Kipchak branch of the Turkic languages, together with Kyrgyz, Tatar and Bashkir. Related languages share many words, but a name is listed under a language only when it is documented there.

Other languages: Turkish · Uyghur · Uzbek · Azerbaijani · Turkmen

References for this page

  1. Wikipedia contributors. Kazakh alphabets. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1381145820. 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.