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 59 of 332

Berksan
“famed as strong”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Berksay
“firm and esteemed”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Berksoy
“of strong lineage”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Berksu
“firm water”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Berksun
“may he be firm”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Berktan
“firm dawn”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Berktin
“strong-natured person”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Berkün
“strong, well-known person”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Bermude
“object, thing”
From Persian · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Berna
“young, shapely woman”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur
Unisex2 syllablesDocumented
Berrak
“clear, limpid”
From Arabic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Berşe
“all, whole, a lot”
From Turkic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Bertan
“fruit of the dawn”
From Persian and Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Berter
“superior, higher”
From Persian · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Besamet
“smiling face; merriment”
From Arabic · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial

Beşaret
“good tidings”
From Arabic · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Beşarettin
“glad tidings of the faith”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Besat
“flat ground, plain”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Besen
“frost or dew; mist; light snowfall”
Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Beşgül
“five roses”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Besim
“smiling”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Besime
“smiling one”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Bəşir
“bringer of good news, herald, harbinger”
From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Besire
“bright-eyed, sharp-sighted”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl3 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.