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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

6,152 names · page 56 of 257

  • Bozer

    “grey hero”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Bozerk

    “grey power”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Bozkan

    “grey blood”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Bozkara

    “grey black”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Bozkaya

    “grey rock”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Bozkır

    “treeless steppe”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Bozkurt

    “grey wolf”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Bozlak

    “a folk-song melody of central and southern Anatolia”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Bozok

    “Grey Arrow”
    Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Bozokay

    “grey Okay”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Boztaş

    “grey stone”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Unisex2 syllablesEditorial

  • Boztepe

    “grey hill”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Boztimur

    “grey iron”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Bozyel

    “rain-bringing southerly wind”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Unisex2 syllablesEditorial

  • Bozyiğit

    “grey brave youth”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Bucak

    “hidden or remote corner; sandy, bushy riverbank; mountain peak”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Unisex2 syllablesEditorial

  • Budak

    “shoot, the emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant”
    From Uzbek · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesLikely

  • Budun

    “people, nation”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Budunalp

    “hero of the people”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Büğdüz

    “knot in a tree; resinous heartwood of pine”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Büge

    “dam or weir on a stream; also wise, learned; dragon (as in Büke)”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Unisex2 syllablesEditorial

  • Büget

    “pool; deep part of a lake; puddle”
    Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Buğra

    “male camel”
    Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Buğrahan

    “camel-stallion khan”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Boy3 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

  1. Wikipedia contributors. Turkic languages. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1377797900. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  2. Wikipedia contributors. Turkish alphabet. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1381762599. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.