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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

72 names · page 2 of 3

Taushy
“alpinist, mountaineer, mountain climber”
Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesLikely
Tautan
“Gymnocephalus”
Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesLikely
Tauzhan
“mountain + soul”
From Proto-Turkic and Classical Persian · Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesLikely
Tazhikhan
“crown + khan (ruler over various Turkic and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages)”
From Arabic and Kipchak · Kazakh
Unisex3 syllablesDocumented
Tegis
“even, level, flat, smooth”
From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesLikely
Temir
“iron”
From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Temirbai
“iron + rich, wealthy”
From Kipchak and Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
Boy3 syllablesLikely
Temirbolat
“iron + steel”
From Kipchak and Classical Persian · Kazakh
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Temirkan
“iron + khan (ruler over various Turkic and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages)”
From Kipchak · Kazakh
Boy3 syllablesLikely
Temirkhan
“iron + khan (ruler over various Turkic and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages)”
From Kipchak · Kazakh
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Temirtas
“iron stone”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Tilegen
“wished for”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Tilek
“hope, wish”
From Turkic · Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Tilektes
“well-wisher”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Tileubai
“wish; want + rich, wealthy”
Kazakh
Boy3 syllablesLikely

Tileukhan
“wish; want + khan (ruler over various Turkic and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages)”
Kazakh
Boy3 syllablesLikely
Tileumurat
“wish; want + cherished goal”
Kazakh
Boy4 syllablesLikely
Tileuzhan
“wish; want + soul”
Kazakh
Boy3 syllablesLikely
Timur
“iron”
From Turkic · Turkish, Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Toibai
“feast, festival + rich, wealthy”
From Proto-Common Turkic and Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesLikely
Tokbai
“satiated, full + rich, wealthy”
From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Toksan
“ninety”
Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesLikely
Toktar
“may he stay”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Toktassyn
“may he stay”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Boy3 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.