“understanding; lineage”
Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
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 304 of 332
- “brotherhood, friendship”From Arabic · TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “honor, dignity”From Turkic · TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “understanding, intellect; lineage”TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “connecting khan”TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “binding blood”TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “messenger lord”TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “continuous; category; skilled”TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “reach, arrive”From Turkic · Turkish, KazakhBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “sharing; a share”From Turkic · TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “setting sun; epidemic”From Turkic · TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “exalted, great person”From Turkic · TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “fine down on a peach; the Pleiades”From Turkic · TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “handsome person; share; manner”From Turkic · TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “country; homeland”From Turkic · TurkishUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “my country”From Turkic · TurkishGirl2 syllablesEditorial
- “your homeland”From Turkic · TurkishBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “light of the homeland”From Turkic and Arabic · TurkishGirl3 syllablesEditorial
- “the Pleiades”From Proto-Turkic · Turkish, AzerbaijaniGirl2 syllablesEditorial
- “ideal”From Turkic · TurkishGirl2 syllablesEditorial
- “one who shares the same ideal”From Turkic · TurkishUnisex3 syllablesEditorial
- “person with an ideal”From Turkic · TurkishBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “my ideal, my aim”From Turkic · TurkishGirl2 syllablesEditorial
- “one devoted to an ideal”From Turkic · TurkishBoy3 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):
- Turkic4158
- Arabic2170
- Persian1209
- Greek42
- Mongolic39
- Hebrew28
- French14
Counted from 7961 published entries. Each name page explains its own etymology with sources.
Turkish names by meaning
Explore related languages
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.