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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

42 names · page 1 of 2

Bader
“full moon”
From Arabic · Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Bakize
“neat, clean”
Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesLikely
Baksha
“garden”
From Persian · Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Baktygul
“flower of happiness”
From Persian · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Bakyt
“fortune, luck; happiness”
From Persian · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Unisex2 syllablesDocumented
Bakytzhamal
“happy beauty”
From Persian and Arabic · Kazakh
Girl4 syllablesEditorial
Balaussa
“fresh young grass, tender”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Balbike
“honey lady”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Balerke
“honey darling”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Balgul
“honey flower”
From Turkic and Persian · Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Balgyn
“fresh, tender”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Balkumis
“honey + silver”
Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Balnur
“honey light”
From Arabic · Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Balsheker
“honey and sugar”
From Turkic and Persian · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Balym
“my honey”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesEditorial

Balzhan
“honey soul”
From Turkic and Persian · Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Bates
“batiste”
From Russian · Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesLikely
Bazargul
“market + flower”
From Persian and Classical Persian · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Begaiym
“lady, princess”
From Turkic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Beibitgul
“flower of peace”
From Turkic and Persian · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Bekdana
“bey, beg, bek, master (component of many male given names) + wise, brilliant”
From Proto-Turkic and Persian · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesLikely
Beksulu
“noble beauty”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Bekzada
“noble-born”
From Turkic and Persian · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Bella
“beautiful”
From Latin · Kazakh
Girl2 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.