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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 6 of 332

Adalet
“justice, fairness”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Adalettin
“justice of the faith”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Adamış
“one who has made a vow”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Adanan
“dedicated in memory of; a vow”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Adanır
“one who gains a name”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Adar
“maturity; time; companion”
Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Adaş
“namesake; friend”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Adasal
“of an island; islander”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Aday
“candidate”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Adəm
“man, made of earth”
From Hebrew · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Aden
“garden of Eden”
From Arabic · Turkish
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Adeviye
“kindness, helpfulness”
From Arabic · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Adıbelli
“of renowned lineage”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex4 syllablesEditorial
Adıgün
“renowned day”
Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Adıgüzel
“one with a fine name”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex4 syllablesEditorial

Adil
“just, fair”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Adile
“upholder of justice”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Adilhan
“just khan”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Adın
“stranger; other”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Adışah
“renowned shah”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Adısanlı
“famous person”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex4 syllablesEditorial
Adısönmez
“whose name never fades”
Turkish
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Adıvar
“renowned”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Adıyahşi
“of good name”
From Turkic · 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.