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 3 of 332

Abdurrahman
“slave of The Most Compassionate”
From Ottoman Turkish and Arabic · Turkish
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Abdürrauf
“servant of the Kind”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Abdürreşit
“servant of the Rightly Guiding”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Abdürrezzak
“servant of the Provider”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Abdüssamet
“servant of the Eternal”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Abdüssami
“servant of the All-Hearing”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Abdüsselâm
“servant of the Source of Peace”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Abdüssemi
“servant of the All-Hearing”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Abdüssettar
“servant of the Concealer of faults”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Abdüzzeki
“servant of the Intelligent”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Abgül
“pure, water-clear rose”
From Persian · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Abher
“narcissus; jasmine”
From Arabic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Abide
“worshipper, devotee”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Abidin
“devoted worshipper of the faith”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Abil
“majestic, huge, giant”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesDocumented

Abır
“fragrance, musk”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Abıru
“honor, dignity”
From Persian · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Abit
“worshipper”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Abiye
“graceful, refined”
From Arabic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Ablak
“bright-faced; pleasant”
From Turkic · Turkish, Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Abraş
“freckled or mottled; a dun-coloured horse”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Abruy
“honor, dignity”
From Persian · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Abuşka
“husband; respected elder”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Abuzer
“gold water; the name of an early companion of Muhammad”
From Arabic and Persian · Turkish
Boy3 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.