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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 6 of 14

  • Ermek

    “amusement, comfort”
    From Turkic · Kyrgyz
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Esen

    “breeze, that which blows”
    From Turkic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kyrgyz
    Unisex2 syllablesDocumented

  • Esenbek

    “lord in good health”
    From Turkic · Kyrgyz
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Farida

    “unique, precious”
    From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl3 syllablesEditorial

  • Fatima

    “one who weans (a child)”
    From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl3 syllablesEditorial

  • Feruza

    “turquoise”
    From Persian · Kyrgyz, Uzbek
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Gulaiym

    “flower lady”
    From Persian and Turkic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
    Girl2 syllablesEditorial

  • Gulbubu

    “flower lady”
    From Persian · Kyrgyz
    Girl3 syllablesEditorial

  • Gulchekhra

    “flower-faced”
    From Persian · Kyrgyz
    Girl3 syllablesEditorial

  • Güljamal

    “flower-beautiful”
    From Persian and Arabic · Uyghur, Kyrgyz
    Girl3 syllablesEditorial

  • Guljan

    “dear flower”
    From Persian · Uyghur, Kyrgyz
    Girl2 syllablesEditorial

  • Gulnara

    “pomegranate blossom”
    From Persian · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl3 syllablesEditorial

  • Gülnur

    “flower + light”
    From Persian and Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Gülzat

    “born of a flower; flower-beautiful; of flower lineage”
    Uyghur, Kyrgyz
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Ibraiym

    “father of many”
    From Hebrew · Kyrgyz
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • İlyas

    “Elijah (name of the prophet)”
    From Arabic (from Greek and Hebrew) · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Irıskeldi

    “luck + has come”
    From Kyrgyz · Kyrgyz
    Boy4 syllablesDocumented

  • Isa

    “God saves”
    From Classical Persian and Arabic · Turkish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • İskender

    “Alexander (Arabic-Persian form of the name)”
    From European · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Bashkir
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • İslam

    “Islam; submission to God”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Islambek

    “lord of Islam”
    From Arabic and Turkic · Kyrgyz
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Jakyp

    “one who follows at the heel”
    From Hebrew · Kyrgyz
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Jamila

    “beautiful”
    From Arabic · Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Janbolat

    “soul + steel”
    From Persian · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

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

  1. Wikipedia contributors. Kyrgyz alphabets. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1377692032. 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.