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

25 names · page 1 of 2

Talim
“education”
From Persian · Kazakh
Unisex2 syllablesLikely
Talshybyk
“willow twig”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Talshyn
“chestnut tree, Castanea”
Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesLikely
Tamara
“date palm”
From Hebrew · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Tamasha
“wonderful, marvellous”
From Arabic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Tansholpan
“morning star”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Tansyk
“rare and longed-for”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Tänzilä
“sent down, revelation”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Uzbek, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Tarbie
“education”
From Arabic · Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesLikely
Tasbala
“stone + child”
From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesLikely
Tatti
“sweet”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Tattibala
“sweet child”
From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
Girl4 syllablesEditorial
Tattigul
“sweet flower”
From Classical Persian · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Tattigyz
“sweet girl”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Tazhigul
“crown + rose; flower”
From Arabic and Classical Persian · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesDocumented

Tazhikhan
“crown + khan (ruler over various Turkic and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages)”
From Arabic and Kipchak · Kazakh
Unisex3 syllablesDocumented
Tendik
“equality”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Toibala
“feast, festival + child”
From Proto-Common Turkic and Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesLikely
Toibike
“feast, festival + noblewoman”
Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesLikely
Tolkyn
“wave”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Torgyn
“fine silk”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Toty
“parrot”
From Persian · Kazakh, Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Tursynai
“may the moon stay”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Tursyngul
“may the flower stay”
From Turkic and Persian · 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.