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 103 of 257

Fezaî
“relating to space”
From Arabic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Fikret
“thought, reflection”
From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Fikrettin
“thought of the faith”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Fikri
“of thought, intellectual”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Filizer
“young, inexperienced youth”
Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Fırat
“the Euphrates river”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Firdevsi
“heavenly, relating to paradise; name of the Persian poet who wrote the Shahnameh”
From Persian · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Firuz
“victorious, triumphant”
From Persian · Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Firuzan
“variant of Füruzan: radiant, shining”
Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Fuat
“heart”
From Arabic · Turkish, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy1 syllableEditorial
Furkan
“criterion of right and wrong”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Füruzende
“shining; illuminating”
From Persian · Turkish
Unisex4 syllablesEditorial
Fütüvvet
“chivalry; generosity”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Fuzulî
“needless, unwarranted; name of a 16th-century divan poet”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Gaffar
“forgiving”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial

Gafir
“forgiving”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Ğäfür
“forgiving”
From Arabic · Turkish, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Galip
“victorious, winner”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Gani
“rich, wealthy”
From Arabic · Turkish, Kazakh, Tatar
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ganime
“one who takes spoils”
From Arabic · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Ganimet
“spoils of war; unexpected gain”
From Arabic · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Garip
“stranger; forlorn; strange; touching”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Gavsî
“relating to help or support; one who dives deep”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Gaye
“aim, goal”
From Arabic · Turkish
Unisex1 syllableEditorial

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.