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: 323
Scripts in our data: Cyrillic, Latin, Arabic script
ISO 639-1: ky

Browse Kyrgyz names

323 names · page 1 of 14

Abdulla
“servant of God”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Abdykadyr
“servant of the All-Powerful”
From Arabic · Kyrgyz
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Abdykerim
“servant of the Generous”
From Arabic · Kyrgyz
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Abdyrakhman
“servant of the Compassionate”
From Arabic · Kyrgyz
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Abdyrashit
“servant of the Rightly Guiding”
From Arabic · Kyrgyz
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Abdysalam
“servant of the Source of Peace”
From Arabic · Kyrgyz
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Adil
“just, fair”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Adilbek
“just lord”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Adilet
“justice”
From Arabic · Kyrgyz
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Aibek
“moon lord”
From Turkic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Aibubu
“moon lady”
From Turkic and Persian · Kyrgyz
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aichurok
“moon-like beauty”
From Turkic · Kyrgyz
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Aidai
“like the moon”
From Turkic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Aidana
“moon + wise”
From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Aigerim
“moon + noble, generous”
From Turkic and Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Girl3 syllablesDocumented

Aigul
“moon flower”
From Turkic and Persian · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Aijamal
“moon-beautiful”
From Turkic and Arabic · Kyrgyz
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aijan
“dear moon”
From Turkic and Persian · Kyrgyz
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Aimeerim
“moon of kindness”
From Turkic and Persian · Kyrgyz
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Ainagul
“mirror flower”
From Persian and Classical Persian · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Ainura
“moonlight”
From Turkic and Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aiperi
“moon fairy”
From Turkic and Persian · Kyrgyz
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aisalkyn
“cool moon breeze”
From Turkic · Kyrgyz
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aisha
“living, alive”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Girl2 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
150
Arabic
144
Persian
88
Hebrew
11
Kyrgyz
8
Mongolic
5
Greek
5

Counted from 323 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.