“single, alone; pure”
Turkish
Unisex2 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
1,936 names · page 60 of 81
- “high, majestic”From Arabic · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “sincere, heartfelt”From Arabic · TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “eighth”From Arabic · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “of renown”From Arabic and Turkic · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “famous, renowned person”From Arabic and Turkic · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “beautiful as the moon”TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “stone pine; its cone”From Arabic · TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “second”From Arabic · Turkish, KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “maker, creator”From Arabic · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “occurring to the mind”From Arabic · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “win fame”From Arabic and Turkic · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “spread fame”TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “surrounding; miser”TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “sincere; charming”TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “yellow hero”TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “Scots pine”TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “yellow man”TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “yellow rock”TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “blond girl”TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “rising, emerging”From Arabic · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “child dedicated to saints for long life”TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “weapon case; small dam in an irrigation channel”TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “warrior, fighter”TurkishUnisex3 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.
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.