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

56 names · page 1 of 3

Dabyl
“drum, alarm”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Daiyn
“ready”
From Arabic · Kazakh
Boy1 syllableLikely
Dalelkhan
“proof, argument + khan”
From Persian and Kipchak · Kazakh
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Dalila
“sign, indication, proof, demonstration, evidence, argument”
From Arabic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Damir
“inner, innermost”
From Arabic · Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Dana
“wise”
From Classical Persian and Persian · Turkish, Kazakh
Unisex2 syllablesDocumented
Danagul
“wise flower”
From Classical Persian · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Danalyk
“wisdom”
From Persian and Turkic · Kazakh
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Daneker
“solder”
Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesLikely
Danesh
“knowledge”
From Persian · Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Daniyal
“God is my judge”
From Arabic and Hebrew · Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Daniyar
“wise friend”
From Persian · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Danyshpan
“sage, genius”
From Persian · Kazakh
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Dara
“unique, singular”
From Turkic · Turkish, Kazakh
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Dariya
“sea, great river”
From Persian · Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesEditorial

Darkhan
“free, privileged”
From Mongolic · Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Darmen
“remedy, cure; medicine”
From Persian · Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Daryn
“talent”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Dastan
“story”
From Classical Persian and Persian · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Daua
“medicine, cure, curative, remedy (substance or method that restores good health)”
From Arabic · Kazakh
Girl1 syllableLikely
Dauir
“era, epoch”
From Arabic · Kazakh
Boy1 syllableEditorial
Dauirbek
“lord of the era”
From Arabic · Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Dauit
“beloved”
From Hebrew · Kazakh
Boy1 syllableEditorial
Daulet
“state, government; dominion, rulership; fortune, good fortune”
From Persian and Arabic · Kazakh
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

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.