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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

68 names · page 2 of 3

  • Niyaz

    “need, necessity, want, requirement, neediness; scarcity; beggary”
    From Classical Persian and Persian · Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani
    Boy1 syllableDocumented

  • Nizam

    “order, regulation”
    From Arabic · Uyghur, Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Noyan

    “prince, nobleman”
    From Mongolic · Turkish, Kazakh
    Boy1 syllableEditorial

  • Nur

    “light”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
    Boy1 syllableDocumented

  • Nuradil

    “light of justice”
    From Persian and Arabic · Uyghur, Kazakh
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Nurai

    “moonlight”
    From Persian and Proto-Turkic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
    Girl2 syllablesEditorial

  • Nurali

    “superior to all; son handsome as light”
    Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Nuraly

    “light of Ali”
    From Arabic · Kazakh
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Nuran

    “luminous, bright”
    Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Nurassyl

    “noble light”
    From Persian and Classical Persian · Kazakh
    Girl3 syllablesEditorial

  • Nurbai

    “light, shine, radiance + rich, wealthy”
    From Persian and Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesLikely

  • Nurbanu

    “lady of light”
    From Arabic and Persian · Turkish, Kazakh
    Girl3 syllablesEditorial

  • Nurbibi

    “light + wife of the nobleman”
    From Arabic and Persian · Kazakh
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Nurbol

    “be light”
    From Arabic and Turkic · Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Nurbolat

    “light and steel”
    From Persian and Classical Persian · Kazakh
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Nurbolsyn

    “may there be light”
    From Arabic and Turkic · Kazakh
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Nurdan

    “from light”
    From Arabic and Turkic · Turkish, Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Nurdaulet

    “light”
    From Arabic · Kazakh
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Nurgali

    “light”
    From Arabic · Kazakh
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Nurgeldi

    “light has come”
    From Arabic and Turkic · Kazakh, Turkmen
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Nuriddin

    “light of the faith”
    From Arabic · Kazakh, Uzbek
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Nurikamal

    “light of perfection; son who has reached perfection, perfect man”
    From Arabic · Uyghur, Kazakh
    Girl4 syllablesDocumented

  • Nuriya

    “radiant, luminous”
    From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl2 syllablesEditorial

  • Nurjan

    “light + soul”
    From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

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

  1. Wikipedia contributors. Kazakh alphabets. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1381145820. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  2. Wikipedia contributors. Turkic languages. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1377797900. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.