“flying moon”
Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
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
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- “unrealistic dreamer”TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “tip of the moon”TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “frontier lord, border commander”TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “flighty, volatile”TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “snow-covered steep slope”TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “moment, opportunity; season”TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “horizon”From Arabic · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesDocumented
- “horizon moon”From Arabic and Turkic · TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “lofty, exalted; strong”TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “take luck”TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “lucky hero”TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “lucky ancestor”TurkishUnisex4 syllablesEditorial
- “lucky moon”TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “lucky soul”From Turkic and Persian · TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “one with a lucky hand”TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “lucky, bringing good fortune”TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “lucky lord”TurkishUnisex4 syllablesEditorial
- “lucky, auspicious”TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “stream of luck”TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “of lucky lineage”TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “understanding; lineage”TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “messenger lord”TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “continuous; category; skilled”TurkishUnisex2 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.
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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.