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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Tabende
“shining, radiant”
From Persian · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Taç
“crown”
From Arabic · Turkish
Unisex1 syllableEditorial
Tacal
“be supreme”
From Arabic and Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Taçeser
“crown work; precious work”
From Arabic · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Tacettin
“crown of the faith”
From Persian and Arabic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Taci
“relating to a crown”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Tacim
“punctuation”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Tacir
“merchant”
From Arabic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Taciser
“crown of the head; most beloved”
From Arabic and Persian · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Tacızer
“golden crown”
From Arabic and Persian · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Taçkın
“pride”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Taçlı
“crowned”
From Turkic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Taçlıyıldız
“crowned star”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Taçnur
“crown of light”
From Arabic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Tacver
“crowned king”
From Persian · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial

Taflan
“cherry laurel”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Tağ
“mountain”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex1 syllableEditorial
Tağalp
“mountain hero”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Tagan
“dove”
From Turkic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Tagangül
“rose of Tagan”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Tağar
“vessel, bowl, jar”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Tağman
“large and imposing like a mountain”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Taha
“pure”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Tahir
“pure, clean”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented

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.