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 26 of 332

Altıntuğ
“golden standard”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Altoğan
“a kind of falcon”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Altop
“red ball”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Altuğ
“red banner”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Altuna
“red bronze”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Altunay
“golden moon”
From Turkic · Turkish
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Altunbaş
“golden head”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Altunç
“red bronze”
From Turkic · Turkish
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Altunçağ
“golden age”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Altuncan
“golden soul”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Altuner
“golden man”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Altunhan
“golden khan”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Altuntaş
“golden stone”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Alya
“exalted, high”
From Arabic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Alyipek
“scarlet silk”
Turkish
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Amanullah
“security of God”
From Arabic · Turkish
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Amber
“ambergris; fragrant”
From Arabic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Amine
“safe, secure (feminine)”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Amir
“flourishing, one who brings prosperity; commander, one who orders”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Amiran
“rulers, emirs”
From Arabic and Persian · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Amre
“living, alive”
From Arabic · Turkish
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Anabacı
“motherly sister”
From Turkic · Turkish
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Anabörü
“she-wolf”
From Turkic · Turkish
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Anadolu
“Anatolia, the Asian part of Turkey”
From Greek · Turkish
Boy4 syllablesEditorial

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.