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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

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  • Tayfun

    “typhoon”
    Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Tayfur

    “a small bird”
    From Persian · Turkish, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Taygan

    “unique, one of a kind”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Unisex2 syllablesEditorial

  • Taygun

    “child, grandchild”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Tayguner

    “child man”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Tayhan

    “foal khan”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Tayip

    “variant of Tayyip, good and pleasant”
    Turkish
    Boy1 syllableEditorial

  • Taykara

    “dark-skinned young one”
    Turkish
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Taykoç

    “young ram”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Unisex2 syllablesEditorial

  • Taykurt

    “young wolf”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Unisex2 syllablesEditorial

  • Taykut

    “blessed young one”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Tayla

    “variant of Taylak, young foal”
    Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Taylak

    “young foal”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Taylan

    “tall and well-built”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Taylaner

    “man of Taylan”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Tayman

    “young, fresh, inexperienced person”
    Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Taymaz

    “steady, sure-footed”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Unisex2 syllablesEditorial

  • Taypars

    “foal strong as a leopard”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Tayuk

    “slender, gentle youth”
    From Turkic · Turkish
    Boy1 syllableEditorial

  • Tayyar

    “swift, flying”
    From Arabic · Turkish
    Boy1 syllableEditorial

  • Tayyibe

    “good, pure”
    From Arabic · Turkish
    Girl2 syllablesEditorial

  • Tayyip

    “good”
    From Ottoman Turkish and Arabic · Turkish
    Boy1 syllableDocumented

  • Taze

    “fresh, young”
    From Persian · Turkish
    Girl2 syllablesEditorial

  • Teber

    “tabar, a type of battle axe with a crescent-shaped blade, carried by some dervishes”
    From Classical Persian · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesLikely

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

  1. Wikipedia contributors. Turkic languages. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1377797900. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  2. Wikipedia contributors. Turkish alphabet. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1381762599. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.