“country-loving”
Turkish
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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
Browse Turkish names
115 names · page 3 of 5
- “dawn of the realm”From Turkic · TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “prince of the realm”From Turkic · TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “iron of the realm”TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “pure realm”TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “one who has taken hold of the realm”TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “just realm”TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “gentle, upright realm”TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “Elijah (name of the prophet)”From Arabic (from Greek and Hebrew) · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, BashkirBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “pillar of the faith”From Arabic · TurkishBoy4 syllablesEditorial
- “one who stands in front, leader, guide”From Arabic · Turkish, UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “trust, absolute conviction; to believe”From Arabic · Turkish, UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “pillar, column”From Arabic · Turkish, KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “Help, assistance.”From Arabic · TurkishBoy2 syllablesLikely
- “lover; sibling; friend”TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “yearning, desire”TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “belief, trust”From Turkic · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “faith, belief”From Turkic · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “one whose essence is faith”TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “care, favour, protection”From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, AzerbaijaniBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “fine water”TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “radiance”From Arabic · TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “from the place name İnönü; surname of Turkey's second president”TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “inner nature, character; face, appearance”From Turkic · Turkish, KazakhGirl2 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):
- Turkic4158
- Arabic2170
- Persian1209
- Greek42
- Mongolic39
- Hebrew28
- French14
Counted from 7961 published entries. Each name page explains its own etymology with sources.
Turkish names by meaning
Explore related languages
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.