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

1,082 names · page 42 of 46

Ayniye
“relating to the eye”
From Arabic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Aynur
“moon + light”
From Turkic and Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Aypar
“imposing, majestic”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Aypare
“piece of the moon”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aypars
“moon leopard”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Ayperi
“moon + fairy”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Aypınar
“moon spring”
From Turkic · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Ayral
“distinct, one of a kind”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Ayrıl
“crossroads”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Aysal
“moon-like”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Aysan
“glorious as the moon”
From Turkic and Arabic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Ayşe
“Aisha, wife of the Prophet Muhammad”
From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Ayşecan
“dear Ayşe”
From Arabic and Persian · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Ayşedudu
“Ayşe the parrot”
From Arabic and Turkic · Turkish
Unisex4 syllablesEditorial
Ayşegül
“living rose”
From Arabic and Persian · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial

Ayşehan
“Ayşe the queen”
From Arabic and Turkic · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aysel
“flood of moonlight”
From Turkic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Ayselen
“moon radiance”
From Turkic · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aysema
“moon sky”
From Turkic and Arabic · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Ayşen
“cheerful moon”
From Turkic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Ayşenur
“living light”
From Arabic · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Ayser
“give brightness, bring light”
From Turkic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Aysere
“more beautiful than the moon”
From Turkic · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aysev
“love the moon”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 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.