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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 43 of 156

Dürdanə
“single pearl”
From Persian · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Dürefşan
“scattering pearls”
From Persian · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Düri
“variant of Düriye: pearl-like, shining”
Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Düriye
“pearl-like, shining”
From Arabic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Durkadın
“enduring woman”
From Turkic · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Durkız
“enduring girl”
From Turkic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Dürnev
“new pearl”
From Persian · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Dürrüşehvar
“pearl fit for a sovereign”
From Arabic and Persian · Turkish
Girl4 syllablesEditorial
Dursune
“may she stay”
From Turkic · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Duru
“clear, pure”
From Proto-Turkic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Durugül
“pure rose”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Durukadın
“clear-hearted woman”
From Turkic · Turkish
Girl4 syllablesEditorial
Durukal
“stay pure”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Durul
“become clear; sediment”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Durusu
“clear + water”
From Proto-Turkic · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesLikely

Duşize
“untouched maiden”
From Persian · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Düşün
“thought; idea”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Düşünsel
“relating to thought”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Duygu
“feeling, emotion”
From Turkic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Duygun
“sensitive; emotional”
From Turkic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Duysal
“relating to the senses”
From Turkic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Ebrar
“the pious, the righteous”
From Arabic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Ebru
“eyebrow; paper marbling”
From Persian · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Ece
“queen”
From Proto-Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 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.