Language guide

Kyrgyz Names: Meanings, Origins & Traditions

Kyrgyz names appear here in the Cyrillic alphabet used in Kyrgyzstan, with Latin spellings only where a cited source provides them. Kyrgyz shares many name elements with Kazakh, but the spellings differ (for example long vowels such as уу), so each entry keeps the forms documented for Kyrgyz separately rather than assuming a Kazakh form is also Kyrgyz.

Кыргыз тили

Kipchak branch of the Turkic language family

Published names: 257
Scripts in our data: Cyrillic, Latin, Arabic script
ISO 639-1: ky

Browse Kyrgyz names

25 names · page 1 of 2

Saadat
“happiness”
From Arabic · Kyrgyz
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Sabira
“patient”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Sabyr
“patience, forbearance”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sadyk
“loyal, truthful”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Saida
“female equivalent of سَيِّد (sayyid, “master, sir”):; mistress, princess; …”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Saikal
“polished, shining, radiant”
From Arabic · Kyrgyz
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Salamat
“healthy, safe”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Sälimä
“safe, sound”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Saltanat
“splendour, triumph”
From Arabic · Turkish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Samatbek
“eternal lord”
From Arabic and Turkic · Kyrgyz
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Sapar
“Safar (second month); journey”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Saparbek
“lord of the journey”
From Arabic and Proto-Turkic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Seyil
“stroll”
From Kyrgyz · Kyrgyz
Girl1 syllableDocumented
Seyit
“master, lord”
From Arabic · Turkish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Bashkir
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Sezim
“feeling”
From Turkic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Boy2 syllablesEditorial

Sharip
“noble, honourable”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Sharipa
“noble, honourable”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Sharshen
“born on Wednesday”
From Persian · Kyrgyz
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Shirin
“sweet, pleasant”
From Persian · Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Shumkar
“gyrfalcon”
From Turkic · Kyrgyz
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Sofia
“wisdom”
From Greek · Kyrgyz
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Sonun
“wonderful, fine”
From Turkic · Kyrgyz
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Sultan
“power, authority; sultan”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sultanbek
“sultan lord”
From Classical Persian · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Boy3 syllablesEditorial

How Kyrgyz names are written

Kyrgyz Cyrillic adds the letters ң, ө and ү and writes long vowels with doubled letters (аа, ээ, оо, уу). In China, Kyrgyz is written in an Arabic-based script. Latin spellings vary and are recorded only from sources.

Where Kyrgyz names come from

A name used in Kyrgyz is not automatically Kyrgyz in origin. Here is how the documented origins of the Kyrgyz names published so far break down (a name with elements from two languages counts under both):

Turkic
136
Arabic
107
Persian
72
Kyrgyz
8
Hebrew
7
Greek
5
Russian
3

Counted from 257 published entries. Each name page explains its own etymology with sources.

Kyrgyz names by meaning

Kyrgyz belongs to the Kipchak branch of the Turkic languages, together with Kazakh, 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. Kyrgyz alphabets. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1377692032. 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.