Language guide

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 3 of 7

Aiziba
“beautiful as the moon”
From Turkic and Persian · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Akaltyn
“white gold”
From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Akaru
“pure beauty”
From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Akbala
“pure child”
From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Akbet
“fair face”
From Turkic · Turkish, Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Akbibi
“pure lady”
From Proto-Turkic and Persian · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Akbike
“pure lady”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Akbilek
“white-wristed”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Akboken
“white saiga antelope”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Akbota
“white camel calf”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Akerke
“white + naughty”
Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Akgül
“white rose; white flower”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkish, Kazakh, Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Akkagaz
“white paper”
From Turkic and Persian · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Akkenzhe
“white; clean, pure, saintly + lastborn”
From Proto-Turkic and Proto-Mongolic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesLikely
Akku
“swan”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial

Akkuba
“fair-skinned”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Akkumis
“white + silver”
Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Akkyz
“pure girl”
From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Akmaral
“white + Cervus elaphus maral”
From Classical Mongolian · Turkish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Akmarzhan
“white pearl”
From Proto-Turkic and Arabic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aknazik
“white and delicate”
From Turkic and Persian · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Akniet
“pure intention”
From Turkic and Arabic · Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Aksan
“well-known, good person”
From Turkic · Turkish, Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Aksha
“money, cash”
From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesLikely

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.