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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: 1555
Scripts in our data: Cyrillic, Latin
ISO 639-1: kk

Browse Kazakh names

155 names · page 1 of 7

Ademi
“beautiful, graceful”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Adiba
“cultured, well-mannered woman”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Uzbek
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Adila
“just, fair”
From Arabic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Adina
“Friday”
From Persian · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Aiassem
“graceful as the moon”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Aibader
“moon, full moon”
From Turkic and Arabic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aibala
“moon child”
From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Aibanu
“moon lady”
From Turkic and Persian · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aibibi
“moon lady”
From Persian and Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aibike
“moon + girl, lass”
From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Aida
“return, gain, yield, profit, dividends etc.”
From Arabic · Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Aidai
“like the moon”
From Turkic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Aidana
“moon + wise”
From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Aiganym
“moon + madame, Mrs”
From Persian and Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Aigerim
“moon + noble, generous”
From Turkic and Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Girl3 syllablesDocumented

Aigul
“moon flower”
From Turkic and Persian · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Aikelbet
“moon-faced, comely”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aikumis
“moon silver”
From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aikun
“moon and sun”
From Proto-Turkic and Kipchak · Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Aina
“mirror”
From Persian · Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Ainagul
“mirror flower”
From Persian and Classical Persian · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Ainakan
“mirror + khan (ruler over various Turkic and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages)”
From Persian and Kipchak · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesLikely
Ainek
“glass (substance)”
From Classical Persian · Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesLikely
Ainissa
“moon among women”
From Turkic and Arabic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial

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):

Turkic
722
Arabic
557
Persian
448
Kipchak
65
Hebrew
26
Greek
17
Mongolic
15

Counted from 1555 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 · Tajik

References for this page

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