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

6,152 names · page 27 of 257

Armanç
“ideal”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Arol
“be pure and diligent”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Arpad
“little barley grain”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Arpağ
“magic, charm, spell”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Arpak
“magic, charm, spell”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Arpınar
“clear spring”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Arsal
“clean and hardworking”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Arsan
“of good reputation”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Arslan
“lion”
From Proto-Turkic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Arslaner
“lion man”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Arsoy
“honourable lineage”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Artaç
“honourable crown”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Artam
“virtue; value”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Artık
“excellent, virtuous; extra, more”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Artuç
“a spear-like weapon with an iron tip”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial

Artuk
“excellent, virtuous; extra, more”
Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Artunç
“honourable bronze”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Arukan
“pure blood”
Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Arukız
“lovely girl”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Aryüz
“honourable face”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Arzık
“devout, pious”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Arzuhan
“khan of wishes”
From Persian and Turkic · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Asaf
“vizier; name of Solomon's vizier”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Asalbegüm
“true lady”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex4 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.