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What Does gül Mean in Names?

gül means “rose; flower” and comes from Persian. It appears in 23 published names on this site.

A Persian word for a flower, and in older or literary usage specifically the rose. Turkic languages took it over as gül, гүл or گۈل; Turkish uses it mainly for the rose, while Kazakh and Kyrgyz gloss it as flower in general.

Origin

Classical Persian gul; the Turkish entry traces it further back through Middle Persian.

23 gül girl names

  1. Akgül

    “white rose; white flower”
    From Turkic and Persian · Turkish, Kazakh
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  2. Almagul

    “apple + flower”
    From Proto-Common Turkic and Classical Persian · Kazakh
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  3. Anargul

    “pomegranate + flower”
    From Persian and Classical Persian · Kazakh
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  4. Assemgul

    “beautiful + flower”
    From Classical Persian and Persian · Kazakh
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  5. Aygul

    “moon + flower”
    From Turkic and Persian · Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Bashkir
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  6. Azhargul

    “look, appearance + flower”
    From Arabic and Classical Persian · Kazakh
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  7. Bazargul

    “market + flower”
    From Persian and Classical Persian · Kazakh
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  8. Bibigul

    “wife of the nobleman + flower”
    From Persian and Classical Persian · Kazakh
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  9. Gül

    “rose”
    From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur
    Girl1 syllableDocumented

  10. Gulai

    “flower + moon”
    From Classical Persian and Proto-Turkic · Kazakh
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  11. Gulazhar

    “flower + appearance”
    From Classical Persian and Arabic · Kazakh
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  12. Gülbahar

    “rose (flower) + spring”
    From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  13. Gulbibi

    “flower + wife of the nobleman”
    From Persian · Uyghur, Kazakh
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  14. Gulbolsyn

    “flower + third-person singular imperative of бол- (to be)”
    From Classical Persian · Kazakh
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  15. Gülcan

    “rose + soul”
    From Persian · Turkish
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  16. Gülistan

    “flower garden, rose garden”
    From Persian · Uyghur
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  17. Gulnar

    “pomegranate flower”
    From Persian · Kazakh, Uzbek
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  18. Gülnur

    “flower + light”
    From Persian and Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  19. Gülşah

    “rose + king”
    From Persian · Turkish
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  20. Gulsara

    “rose; flower + clear, bright, lucid”
    From Persian and Classical Persian · Kazakh
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  21. Gulshara

    “flower + measure”
    From Classical Persian · Kazakh
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  22. Gulshat

    “flower + joyful, cheerful”
    From Classical Persian · Kazakh
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  23. Gulzhan

    “flower + soul”
    From Classical Persian · Kazakh
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

Often combined with

ay (2 names)can (2 names)ak (1 name)bahar (1 name)nur (1 name)shah (1 name)

Sources

  1. Wiktionary contributors. Wiktionary entry “gül”. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 93937012. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Supports: Turkish noun meaning rose, from Classical Persian

  2. Wiktionary contributors. Wiktionary entry “гөл”. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 90085472. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Supports: Bashkir гөл ‘flower’

  3. Wiktionary contributors. Wiktionary entry “гүл”. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 89918203. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Supports: Kazakh and Kyrgyz noun meaning flower, borrowed from Classical Persian

  4. Wiktionary contributors. Wiktionary entry “گل”. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 93616893. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Supports: Persian noun meaning flower; rose in archaic/literary use

  5. Wiktionary contributors. Wiktionary entry “گۈل”. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 87683800. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Supports: Uyghur noun meaning flower, from Classical Persian