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Turkish Names: Meanings, Origins & Traditions

Turkish names are recorded here in the modern Turkish Latin alphabet, which replaced the Arabic-based Ottoman script in 1928. Because Ottoman Turkish absorbed a large Arabic and Persian vocabulary, many familiar Turkish names, such as Elif or Emir, go back to Arabic or Persian words, while others, such as Arslan or Aynur, contain native Turkic elements. Each entry states which of these applies, based on the cited sources.

Türkçe

Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family

Published names: 7961
Scripts in our data: Latin
ISO 639-1: tr

Browse Turkish names

3,744 names · page 21 of 156

Aytan
“moon dawn”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Aytek
“unique as the moon”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Aytemiz
“pure moon”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Ayten
“moon-skinned”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Aytop
“full moon”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Aytöre
“enlightened custom”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Aytöz
“gem as bright as the moon”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Aytül
“moon veil”
From Turkic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Aytuna
“moon bronze”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Aytutkun
“devoted to the moon”
From Turkic · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Ayulduz
“moon star”
From Turkic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Ayülger
“the moon and the Pleiades”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Ayver
“moon-giver”
From Turkic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Ayverdi
“the moon gave”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Ayyalap
“clear moon”
From Turkic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial

Ayyalın
“pure moon”
From Turkic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Ayyarkın
“moonlight and sunlight”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Ayyaruk
“moonlight”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Ayyıldız
“moon + star”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesDocumented
Ayyuca
“bright and noble as the moon”
From Turkic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Ayyüce
“bright and noble as the moon”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Ayyüz
“moon-faced”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex1 syllableEditorial
Ayzıt
“name of an ancient Turkic goddess of beauty, chastity and birth”
From Turkic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Azade
“freedom, open-heartedness”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented

How Turkish names are written

Modern Turkish uses a 29-letter Latin alphabet introduced in 1928. Letters such as ç, ğ, ı, İ, ö, ş and ü matter for spelling: Gülnur and Gulnur are different spellings, and the dotless ı is a separate letter from i. Search on this site ignores these marks, but entries always show the documented spelling.

Where Turkish names come from

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

Turkic
4158
Arabic
2170
Persian
1209
Greek
42
Mongolic
39
Hebrew
28
French
14

Counted from 7961 published entries. Each name page explains its own etymology with sources.

Turkish names by meaning

Turkish belongs to the Oghuz branch of the Turkic languages, together with Azerbaijani and Turkmen. Related languages share many words, but a name is listed under a language only when it is documented there.

Other languages: Uyghur · Kazakh · Kyrgyz · Uzbek · Tatar · Bashkir · Tajik

References for this page

Wikipedia contributors. Turkic languages. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1377797900. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikipedia contributors. Turkish alphabet. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1381762599. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.