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

7,961 names · page 200 of 332

Mihrican
“autumn; an Iranian festival”
From Persian · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Mihrimah
“sun and moon”
From Persian · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Mihrinaz
“sun of coyness; very coy”
From Persian · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Mihrinisa
“sun of women”
From Persian · Turkish
Unisex4 syllablesEditorial
Mihrinur
“sunlight”
From Persian and Arabic · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Mihrişah
“sun ruler”
From Persian · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Mihriye
“of the sun”
From Persian · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Mikâil
“who is like God?”
From Hebrew · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Mimoza
“mimosa flower”
From Latin · Turkish, Kazakh
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Mine
“enamel, glaze”
From Persian · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Minnet
“gratitude”
From Arabic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Miraç
“ascension to heaven”
From Ottoman Turkish and Arabic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Miran Mir
“lord of lords”
From Arabic and Persian and Turkic · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Mirat
“mirror”
From Persian · Turkish, Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Miray
“lord moon”
From Persian · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial

Mircan
“prince of the soul”
From Persian · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Mirhan
“prince khan”
From Persian · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Mirkelâm
“one of fine, gentle speech”
From Persian and Arabic · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Mirnur
“prince of light”
From Persian and Arabic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Mirrih
“the planet Mars”
Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Mirza
“scribe; khan, bey; scholar, gentleman, teacher, master”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Misal
“example; likeness”
From Arabic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Mısır
“maize; Egypt”
From Arabic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Mısra
“line”
From Arabic · Turkish
Girl2 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

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.