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 77 of 332

Caran
“a kind of fragrant flower”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Carim
“guilty, offender”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Carullah
“neighbor of God”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Çav
“fame, renown; trace; loud sound; news”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy1 syllableEditorial
Cavidan
“eternal”
From Persian · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Cavit
“eternal”
From Ottoman Turkish and Classical Persian · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Çavlan
“great cascade”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Cavlı
“famous, renowned; a young falcon not yet used to hunting”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Cavuldur
“name of a Turkic tribe of the Üçok branch of the Oghuz”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex3 syllablesEditorial
Çaydam
“thin felt used to fill beds or make raincoats”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Çaydamar
“stream vein”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Çaykara
“spring on a stream bank; sandy riverbed”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Çaylan
“ford of a river; sandy or gravelly place”
From Turkic · Turkish
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Caymaz
“one who keeps his word”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Cazibe
“charm, attraction”
From Arabic · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial

Cazim
“decisive, resolute”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Cazip
“attractive”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Cebe
“armor”
From Mongolic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Cebealp
“arrowhead hero”
From Mongolic and Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Ceben
“name of one of the twenty-four Oghuz tribes”
From Turkic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Cebesoy
“arrowhead lineage”
From Mongolic and Turkic · Turkish
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Cebrail
“God is my strength”
From Hebrew · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Cedide
“new”
From Arabic · Turkish
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Cefa
“cruelty, torment”
From Arabic · Turkish
Boy2 syllablesLikely

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.