“root of lineage”
Turkish
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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
706 names · page 26 of 30
- “of wolf-strong lineage”TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “of blessed lineage”TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “noble, well-born”From Turkic · TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “noble lord”TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “noble lord”TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “noble man”TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “noble in essence”TurkishBoy1 syllableEditorial
- “lineage grew”TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “civilized Turk”TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “famous lineage”TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “Seljuk lineage”TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “prince of lineage”TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “man of heroic lineage”TurkishUnisex1 syllableEditorial
- “of a large lineage”TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “of clean lineage, noble”TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “take the word”TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “eloquent speaker”TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “man of his word”TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “army; strength”TurkishUnisex1 syllableEditorial
- “soldier + brave”From Proto-Turkic · TurkishBoy1 syllableLikely
- “messenger”From Arabic · Turkish, UyghurBoy1 syllableDocumented
- “one who hurries to help others”From Arabic · TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “water moon”TurkishUnisex1 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):
- 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.