Language guide

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

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Ayhan
“moon + khan, ruler”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesDocumented
Ayhanım
“moon lady”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Ayık
“alert, sober”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy1 syllableEditorial
Ayilkin
“first moon”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Ayımşa
“my little moon”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Aykaç
“one who speaks; adviser; poet”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Aykal
“remain radiant as the moon”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Aykan
“of bright lineage”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Aykaş
“crescent-browed”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Aykatun
“moon lady”
Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Aykönül
“heart like the moon”
Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Aykul
“moon servant”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Aykurt
“moon wolf”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Aykut
“sacred moon”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Aykutalp
“blessed hero”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial

Aykutlu
“blessed by the moon”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Aylan
“open ground, field”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Ayman
“bright and beautiful as the moon”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Aymete
“moon Mete”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Aymutlu
“happy moon”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Aynagül
“mirror rose”
From Persian · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Aynî
“relating to the eye; in kind, not in money”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Aypar
“imposing, majestic”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Aypars
“moon leopard”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial

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.