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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
1098
Scripts in our data
Cyrillic, Latin
ISO 639-1
kk

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21 names

  • Rai

    “mood, intention”
    From Arabic · Kazakh
    Boy1 syllableLikely

  • Raikhan

    “basil”
    From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
    Unisex2 syllablesEditorial

  • Rakat

    “rest, comfort”
    From Arabic · Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Rakhila

    “ewe”
    From Hebrew · Kazakh
    Girl3 syllablesEditorial

  • Rakhiya

    “rest”
    From Arabic · Kazakh
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Rakhman

    “most gracious”
    From Arabic · Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Rakhmankul

    “merciful, compassionate + slave, servant”
    From Arabic and Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Rakhmet

    “mercy; thanks”
    From Arabic · Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Rakym

    “mercy”
    From Arabic · Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Rakymzhan

    “merciful soul”
    From Arabic and Persian · Kazakh
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Ramazan

    “Ramadan”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Ramiz

    “one who signals”
    From Arabic · Kazakh, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Rashit

    “rightly guided”
    From Arabic · Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Rassul

    “messenger”
    From Arabic · Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Rauan

    “psyche; soul; spirit”
    From Persian · Kazakh
    Unisex1 syllableDocumented

  • Raushan

    “rose; bright”
    From Persian · Kazakh
    Unisex2 syllablesEditorial

  • Razak

    “the one who procures the most (ie, God)”
    From Arabic · Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Riza

    “agreement, satisfaction”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Rustem

    “great hero”
    From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Rysbek

    “lord of fortune”
    From Turkic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Ryskeldi

    “fortune has come”
    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
    501
  • Arabic
    382
  • Persian
    309
  • Kipchak
    41
  • Greek
    16
  • Hebrew
    16
  • Mongolic
    12

Counted from 1098 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.