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 100 of 332

Ecebey
“queen lord”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Ecegül
“queen rose”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Ecehan
“queen ruler”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Ecekan
“royal-blooded”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Ecemiş
“wise and mature”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Ecenur
“queen of light”
From Turkic and Arabic · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Ecevit
“nimble; hardworking”
Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Ecir
“reward; merit”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Ecmel
“most beautiful”
From Arabic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Ecrin
“jewel case”
From French · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Ecvet
“the finest; generous”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Eda
“grace, charming manner”
From Arabic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Edadil
“graceful heart”
From Arabic and Persian · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Edagül
“graceful rose”
From Arabic and Persian · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Ede
“grandfather; elder brother”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial

Edgü
“good, noble”
Turkish, Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Edgüalp
“good warrior”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Edgübay
“good lord”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Edgükan
“good khan”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Edibe
“scholar, writer, woman of letters”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Edip
“well-mannered; man of letters”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Ediz
“high, lofty”
From Old Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Efdal
“most virtuous”
From Arabic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Efe
“brave person; elder brother”
From uncertain (Turkic or Greek) · Turkish
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.