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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

1,555 names · page 21 of 65

Beren
“chainmail, particularly of high-quality steel”
From Persian · Turkish, Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesLikely
Bergen
“given (by God)”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Berik
“firm, sturdy”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Berkin
“firm, strong”
From Turkic · Turkish, Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Bibatyr
“bey + hero”
From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
Boy3 syllablesLikely
Bibi
“grandmother, lady, princess”
From Persian · Uyghur, Kazakh, Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Bibigul
“wife of the nobleman + flower”
From Persian and Classical Persian · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Bibikan
“wife of the nobleman + khan (ruler over various Turkic and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages)”
From Persian and Kipchak · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesLikely
Bibikhanym
“noble lady”
From Persian and Turkic · Kazakh
Girl4 syllablesEditorial
Bibinur
“wife of the nobleman + light, shine”
From Persian and Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Bibissara
“hostess + clear, bright, lucid”
From Persian · Kazakh
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Bibizhamal
“beautiful lady”
From Persian and Arabic · Kazakh
Girl4 syllablesEditorial
Bibizhan
“hostess + soul”
From Persian · Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Bike
“lady, princess”
Uyghur, Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Bilal
“clear, fresh air”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Tatar
Boy2 syllablesDocumented

Bilgir
“knowledgeable, expert”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Bilim
“knowledge”
From Turkic · Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Bitim
“armistice, truce”
Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesLikely
Bizhan
“bey + soul”
From Proto-Turkic and Classical Persian · Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesLikely
Boken
“antelope”
Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesLikely
Bolat
“steel”
From Persian · Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Bolatbek
“steel lord”
From Persian · Kazakh
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Bolatkhan
“steel khan”
From Classical Persian and Kipchak · Kazakh
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Bolatkozha
“steel + hodja (Muslim schoolmaster); master; boss”
From Classical Persian · Kazakh
Boy4 syllablesLikely

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.