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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

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81 names · page 1 of 4

  • Ybyraiym

    “father of many”
    From Hebrew · Kazakh
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Ydyrys

    “studious, one who studies”
    From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Yedil

    “the Volga river”
    From Turkic · Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Yelaman

    “the country is safe”
    From Kipchak · Kazakh
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Yelbek

    “lord of the people”
    From Kipchak and Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Yeldana

    “people, mass, population; nation, country + wise, brilliant”
    From Kipchak and Persian · Kazakh
    Girl3 syllablesLikely

  • Yeldar

    “holder of the country”
    From Turkic and Persian · Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Yeldos

    “nation, country + friend”
    From Kipchak and Classical Persian · Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Yelen

    “desire; storm”
    From Turkic · Turkish, Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Yeles

    “unclear outline; silhouette”
    Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesLikely

  • Yelgul

    “flower of the people”
    From Kipchak and Classical Persian · Kazakh
    Girl2 syllablesEditorial

  • Yelmurat

    “wish of the people”
    From Kipchak and Arabic · Kazakh
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Yelmyrza

    “people, mass, population; nation, country + Mirza; gentleman, sir”
    From Kipchak and Classical Persian · Kazakh
    Boy3 syllablesLikely

  • Yelnazar

    “favour of the people”
    From Kipchak and Persian · Kazakh
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Yelnur

    “nation, country + light”
    From Kipchak and Persian · Kazakh, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Yelsuier

    “patriot”
    From Turkic · Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Yelubai

    “fifty + rich, wealthy”
    From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Yelzhan

    “soul of the people”
    From Kipchak and Classical Persian · Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Yerassyl

    “man; hero + precious”
    Kazakh
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Yerbai

    “man; hero + rich, wealthy”
    From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesLikely

  • Yerbala

    “man; hero + child”
    From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
    Boy3 syllablesLikely

  • Yerbatyr

    “brave hero”
    From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Yerbek

    “man; hero + bey, beg, bek, master (component of many male given names)”
    From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesLikely

  • Yerbol

    “be a brave man”
    From Turkic · Kazakh
    Boy2 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

  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.