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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

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Ainur
“moonlight”
From Turkic and Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Ainura
“moonlight”
From Turkic and Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aipara
“piece of the moon”
From Turkic and Persian · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Airyksha
“special, distinctive”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aisara
“moon + clear, bright, lucid; excellent, perfect, first-class, first-rate, prime”
From Proto-Turkic and Persian · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesLikely
Aisaule
“moonbeam”
From Proto-Turkic and Persian · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aisha
“living, alive”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Aishagul
“Aisha flower”
From Arabic and Persian · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aisholpan
“moon and morning star”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aisulu
“beautiful as the moon”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aitbala
“Eid child”
From Classical Persian and Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aitdana
“holiday, feast day, eid + wise, brilliant”
From Classical Persian and Persian · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesLikely
Aitoldy
“the moon became full”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aiym
“my moon”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl1 syllableEditorial
Aiymbibi
“my moon lady”
From Turkic and Persian · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial

Aiymbike
“my moon lady”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aiymgul
“my moon flower”
From Turkic and Persian · Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Aiymzhan
“my moon, my soul”
From Turkic and Persian · Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Aizada
“moon-born child”
From Turkic and Persian · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aizat
“moon child”
From Turkic and Persian · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Aizere
“moon gold”
From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aizhamal
“moon beauty”
From Turkic and Arabic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aizhan
“moon soul, dear as the moon”
From Turkic and Persian · Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Aizhuldyz
“moon and star”
From Turkic · 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.