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

1,555 names · page 2 of 65

Adiba
“cultured, well-mannered woman”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Uzbek
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Adil
“just, fair”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Adila
“just, fair”
From Arabic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Adilbek
“just lord”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Adilgazy
“just warrior”
From Arabic · Kazakh
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Adilkhan
“fair, just, equitable + khan (ruler over various Turkic and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages)”
From Arabic and Kipchak · Kazakh
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Adilzhan
“just soul”
From Arabic and Classical Persian · Kazakh
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Adina
“Friday”
From Persian · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Agabek
“elder lord”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Agyn
“stream, current”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Agzam
“greatest, mightiest”
From Arabic · Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Ahmet
“more praiseworthy; most praiseworthy”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Aiadil
“just as the moon”
From Proto-Turkic and Arabic · Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Aiassem
“graceful as the moon”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Aibader
“moon, full moon”
From Turkic and Arabic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial

Aibala
“moon child”
From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Aibanu
“moon lady”
From Turkic and Persian · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aibar
“moon + there is / there are, there exist”
From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Aibat
“awe-inspiring majesty”
From Arabic · Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Aibek
“moon lord”
From Turkic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Aiberdi
“given by the moon”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Aibergen
“given by the moon”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Aibibi
“moon lady”
From Persian and Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aibike
“moon + girl, lass”
From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
Girl3 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.