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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Tezerol
“be quick and capable”
From Persian and Turkic · Turkish
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Tezkan
“hot-blooded, excitable”
From Persian and Turkic · Turkish
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Tezok
“swift arrow”
From Persian and Turkic · Turkish
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Tezol
“be quick, always active”
From Persian and Turkic · Turkish
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Tezveren
“quick-giving”
From Persian and Turkic · Turkish
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Tibet
“the region of Tibet”
Turkish
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Tıflıgül
“rosebud”
From Arabic and Persian · Turkish
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Tiğin
“variant of Tekin, an old Turkic title for a prince”
Turkish
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Tilmaç
“interpreter, translator”
From Turkic · Turkish
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Timuçin
“blacksmith”
From Mongolic · Turkish
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Timur
“iron”
From Turkic · Turkish, Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
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Timurcan
“strong as iron”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkish
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Timurhan
“Timur khan”
From Turkic · Turkish
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Timurkan
“of strong, iron-like lineage”
From Turkic · Turkish
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Timurlenk
“Timur the Lame, founder of the Timurid dynasty”
From Turkic · Turkish
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Timuröz
“iron-strong in essence”
From Turkic · Turkish
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Timurtaş
“strong and hard as iron and stone”
From Turkic · Turkish
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Tın
“spirit, soul; sturdy-bodied”
From Turkic · Turkish
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Tınal
“draw breath; go on living”
From Turkic · Turkish
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Tınaz
“heap of grass or straw”
From Turkic · Turkish
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Tiner
“sturdy, strong, lively person”
From Turkic · Turkish
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Tinkut
“fortunate in spirit”
From Turkic · Turkish
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Tipi
“snowstorm, blizzard”
From Turkic · Turkish
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Tiraje
“rainbow”
From Persian · Turkish
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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.