Browse Names

This is a list of names in which the gender is masculine; and the usage is Turkish.
gender
usage
Sami 2 m Arabic, Turkish, Albanian
Means "elevated, sublime, supreme" in Arabic.
Şan m & f Turkish (Rare)
Means "fame, reputation" in Turkish.
Savaş m Turkish
Means "war" in Turkish.
Sefa m & f Turkish
Turkish form of Safaa'.
Şehzade m Turkish
Turkish form of Shahzad.
Selâhattin m Turkish
Turkish variant of Selahattin, using an optional circumflex accent.
Selahattin m Turkish
Turkish form of Salah ad-Din.
Selim m Turkish, Albanian
Turkish and Albanian form of Salim. This was the name of three Ottoman sultans, including the father of Süleyman the Magnificent.
Selman m Turkish, Albanian
Turkish and Albanian form of Salman.
Semih m Turkish
Means "generous" in Turkish.
Semir m Turkish
Turkish form of Samir 1.
Şemsettin m Turkish
Turkish form of Shams ad-Din.
Şener m Turkish
From Turkish şen meaning "happy" and er meaning "man, hero, brave".
Şenol m & f Turkish
Means "be happy", from Turkish şen "happy".
Serdar m Turkish, Turkmen
Turkish and Turkmen form of Sardar.
Serhan m Turkish
Derived from Turkish ser meaning "head, top" and han, which is from the title khan meaning "leader".
Serhat m Turkish
Means "frontier" in Turkish.
Şerif m Turkish
Turkish form of Sharif.
Serkan m Turkish
Means "leader, chief" from Turkish ser "head, top" and kan "blood".
Şevket m Turkish
From Arabic شفقة (shafaqah) meaning "compassion".
Seyfettin m Turkish
Turkish form of Sayf ad-Din.
Seyfullah m Turkish
Turkish form of Sayfullah.
Seyyid m Turkish
Turkish form of Sayyid.
Seyyit m Turkish
Turkish form of Sayyid.
Soner m Turkish
Means "last man" in Turkish.
Süheyl m Turkish
Turkish form of Suhail.
Şükri m Turkish
Turkish form of Shukri.
Süleyman m Turkish, Azerbaijani
Turkish form of Solomon. Süleyman the Magnificent was a sultan of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century. He expanded Ottoman territory into Europe and Persia, reformed the government, and completed several great building projects.
Sultan m & f Arabic, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Urdu, Bengali, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Avar
Means "ruler, king, sultan" in Arabic. In the Arab world this name is typically masculine, but Turkey it is given to both boys and girls.
Tahir m Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Bosnian
Means "virtuous, pure, chaste" in Arabic.
Talât m Turkish
Turkish variant of Talat, using an optional circumflex accent.
Talat m Urdu, Turkish
Urdu and Turkish form of Tal'at.
Talha m Arabic, Turkish, Urdu
Derived from Arabic طلح (talh) meaning "fruit-bearing tree". This was the name of an early companion of the Prophet Muhammad.
Talip m Turkish
Turkish form of Talib.
Taner m Turkish
Means "born at dawn" in Turkish.
Tarık m Turkish
Turkish form of Tariq.
Taylan m Turkish
Means "tall" in Turkish.
Tayyip m Turkish
Turkish form of Tayyib.
Temel m Turkish
Means "fundamental, basic" in Turkish.
Tevfik m Turkish
Turkish form of Tawfiq.
Timuçin m Turkish
Turkish form of Temujin.
Timur m Tatar, Chechen, Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkish, Russian, Ukrainian, History
From the Turkic and Mongol name Temür meaning "iron". This was the name of several Mongol, Turkic and Yuan leaders. A notable bearer was Timur, also known as Tamerlane (from Persian تیمور لنگ (Timur e Lang) meaning "Timur the lame"), a 14th-century Turkic leader who conquered large areas of Western Asia.
Tolga m Turkish
Means "helmet" in Turkish.
Toygar m Turkish
Means "lark" in Turkish.
Tugay m Turkish
Means "brigade, troops" in Turkish.
Tuğrul m Turkish
From the Turkish word for a mythical bird of prey, also called a turul, derived from a Turkic word meaning "falcon". This was the name of the 11th-century founder of the Seljuk Empire.
Tunç m Turkish
Means "bronze" in Turkish.
Tuncay m Turkish, Azerbaijani
Means "bronze moon" in Turkish and Azerbaijani.
Turan m & f Turkish, Azerbaijani
From Persian توران (Turan), a historical region in Central Asia, originally inhabited by nomadic Iranian peoples. It is traditionally said to mean "land of Tur". The place is mentioned frequently in the 10th-century Persian epic the Shahnameh.
Turgay m Turkish
Means "skylark" in Turkish.
Tutku f & m Turkish
Means "passion" in Turkish.
Ufuk m Turkish
Means "horizon" in Turkish, of Arabic origin.
Uğur m Turkish, Azerbaijani
Means "luck, fortune" in Turkish and Azerbaijani.
Ulvi m Turkish
Means "exalted, high" in Turkish, from Arabic عُلْوِيّ ('ulwiy).
Ümit m Turkish
Means "hope" in Turkish, ultimately from Persian امید (omid).
Ümran m Turkish
Turkish form of Imran.
Umut m & f Turkish
Variant of Ümit. The Turkish words umut and ümit are etymologically related synonyms.
Ural m Bashkir, Turkish
From the name of the Ural Mountains, of uncertain meaning, possibly from Turkic aral meaning "island, boundary". This is the name of the title character in the Bashkir epic Ural-batyr.
Utku m Turkish
Means "victory" in Turkish.
Vahit m Turkish
Turkish form of Wahid.
Vedat m Turkish
Turkish masculine form of Widad.
Volkan m Turkish
Means "volcano" in Turkish.
Vural m Turkish
Possibly from Turkish vur meaning "strike, hit".
Yağız m Turkish
Means "brown, chestnut (colour)" in Turkish.
Yağmur f & m Turkish, Azerbaijani
Means "rain" in Turkish and Azerbaijani.
Yahya m Arabic, Turkish, Persian
Arabic, Turkish and Persian form of Yochanan (see John). This name honours John the Baptist, a prophet in Islam.
Yakup m Turkish
Turkish form of Jacob.
Yalçın m Turkish
Means "steep" in Turkish.
Yamaç m Turkish
Means "mountainside" in Turkish.
Yaşar m Turkish
Means "lives, inhabits" in Turkish.
Yaser m Persian, Turkish, Arabic
Persian and Turkish form of Yasir, as well as an alternate transcription of the Arabic name.
Yasin m Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Turkish
From the Arabic letters ي (called ya) and س (called sin). These letters begin the 36th chapter of the Quran (surah Ya Sin).
Yavuz m Turkish
Means "stern, grim" in Turkish.
Yiğit m Turkish
Means "brave" in Turkish.
Yıldırım m Turkish
Means "lightning" in Turkish.
Yılmaz m Turkish
Means "dauntless, intrepid" in Turkish.
Yunus m Arabic, Turkish
Arabic and Turkish form of Jonah.
Yunus Emre m Turkish
Combination of Yunus and Emre, given in reference to the 13th-century poet.
Yusuf m Arabic, Turkish, Indonesian
Arabic, Turkish and Indonesian form of Yosef (see Joseph).
Zafer m Turkish
Turkish form of Zafar.
Zekeriya m Turkish
Turkish form of Zechariah.
Zeki m Turkish
Means "intelligent" in Turkish, ultimately from Arabic ذكيّ (dhakiy).
Ziya m Arabic, Turkish
Derived from Arabic ضياء (diya) meaning "splendour, light, glow". This was the name of a 14th-century Islamic Indian historian.
Ziyaeddin m Turkish (Rare)
Turkish variant form of Ziya ad-Din.
Ziyaettin m Turkish
Turkish form of Ziya ad-Din.
Zülfikar m Turkish
Turkish form of Zulfiqar.