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Sabah f & m Arabic, Turkish
Means "morning" in Arabic and Turkish.

Sabahattin m Turkish
Turkish form of Sabah ad-Din.

Sabri m Arabic, Turkish, Albanian, Malay
Means "patient" in Arabic, a derivative of صبر (ṣabara) meaning "to bind, to be patient".

Sabriye f Turkish
Turkish form of Sabriyya.

Şadi m Turkish
Turkish form of Shadi 1.

Sadi m Arabic, Turkish
Means "fortunate, lucky" in Arabic, a derivative of سعد (saʿida) meaning "to be happy, to be lucky".

Sadık m Turkish
Turkish form of Sadiq.

Şadiye f Turkish
Turkish feminine form of Shadi 1.

Safa m & f Persian, Turkish, Arabic
Persian and Turkish form of Safaa or Safaa', as well as an alternate Arabic transcription of either of those names.

Safiye f Turkish
Turkish form of Safiyya.

Şahin m Turkish
Means "hawk" in Turkish, of Persian origin.

Şahnaz f Turkish
Turkish form of Shahnaz.

Sait m Turkish
Turkish form of Said.

Sakine f Turkish
Turkish form of Sakina.

Şakir m Turkish
Turkish form of Shakir.

Salih m Arabic, Turkish, Bosnian, Bengali
Means "virtuous" in Arabic, a derivative of صلح (ṣalaḥa) meaning "to be good, to be proper". According to the Quran this was the name of an early Arabian prophet.

Samed m Turkish
Variant of Samet.

Samet m Turkish
Turkish form of Samad.

Sami 2 m Arabic, Turkish, Albanian
Means "elevated, sublime, supreme" in Arabic, from the root سما (samā) meaning "to be high".

Samiye f Turkish
Turkish feminine form of Sami 2.

Şan m & f Turkish (Rare)
Means "fame, reputation" in Turkish.

Sanem f Turkish
Means "idol" in Turkish.

Sare f Turkish
Turkish form of Sarah.

Savaş m Turkish
Means "war" in Turkish.

Şebnem f Turkish
Turkish form of Shabnam.

Seda f Turkish
Means "voice, echo" in Turkish.

Sedef f Turkish
Turkish form of Sadaf.

Sefa m & f Turkish
Turkish form of Safaa'.

Seher f Turkish
Turkish form of Sahar.

Şehrazad f Turkish (Rare)
Turkish form of Shahrazad.

Şehrazat f Turkish
Turkish form of Shahrazad.

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.

Selçuk m Turkish
Possibly derived from a diminutive form of the Turkic root sil meaning "clean, pure". Selçuk was the eponymous leader of the Seljuk Turks, who established the Seljuk Empire in the Middle East in the 11th century.

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.

Selime f Turkish
Turkish form of Salima.

Selin f Turkish
From Turkish sel meaning "flood, torrent" (a word of Arabic origin).

Selma 2 f Turkish
Turkish form of Salma.

Selman m Turkish, Albanian
Turkish and Albanian form of Salman.

Selvi f Turkish
Means "cypress" in Turkish (derived from Persian, ultimately from Sumerian).

Sema f Turkish
Means "sky, heaven" in Turkish.

Semih m Turkish
Means "generous" in Turkish.

Semiha f Turkish
Feminine form of Semih.

Semir m Turkish
Turkish form of Samir 1.

Semra f Turkish
Turkish form of Samra.

Şemsettin m Turkish
Turkish form of Shams ad-Din.

Sena f Turkish
Turkish form of Thana.

Şenay f Turkish
Means "merry moon" in Turkish.

Şener m Turkish
From Turkish şen meaning "happy" and er meaning "man, hero, brave".

Şengül f Turkish
Possibly from the Persian word شنگول (shangūl) meaning "merry, cheerful".

Şenol m & f Turkish
Means "be happy", from Turkish şen "happy".

Serap f Turkish
Means "mirage" in Turkish (a word of Arabic origin).

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.

Şerife f Turkish
Turkish feminine form of Sharif.

Serkan m Turkish
Means "leader, chief" from Turkish ser "head, top" and kan "blood".

Şermin f Turkish
Means "shy" in Turkish.

Serpil f Turkish
Means "grow" in Turkish.

Sevda f Turkish, Azerbaijani
Means "love, infatuation" in Turkish and Azerbaijani, ultimately from Arabic سوداء (sawdāʾ) meaning "black bile, melancholy, sadness".

Sevgi f Turkish
Means "love" in Turkish.

Sevil f Turkish
Means "loved" in Turkish.

Sevim f Turkish
Means "love" in Turkish.

Sevinç f Turkish
Means "joy" in Turkish.

Şevket m Turkish
From Arabic شفقة (shafaqa) meaning "compassion", a derivative of شفق (shafaqa) meaning "to pity, to sympathize".

Şevval f Turkish
From Arabic شوّال (shawwāl), the tenth month of the Islamic calendar.

Seyfettin m Turkish
Turkish form of Sayf ad-Din.

Seyfullah m Turkish
Turkish form of Sayfullah.

Şeyma f Turkish
Turkish form of Shaima.

Seyyid m Turkish
Turkish form of Sayyid.

Seyyit m Turkish
Turkish form of Sayyid.

Sibel f Turkish
Possibly a Turkish form of Cybele. It was borne by the main character in Refik Halit Karay's novel İkibin Yılın Sevgilisi (1954).

Sıdıka f Turkish
Turkish feminine form of Siddiq.

Sıla f Turkish
Means "reunion, arrival" in Turkish.

Simay f Turkish
Means "silver moon" in Turkish, from sim meaning "silver, glitter" and ay meaning "moon".

Simge f Turkish
Means "symbol" in Turkish.

Sinan m Arabic, Turkish
Means "spearhead" in Arabic.

Sinem f Turkish
Means "my bosom, my breast" in Turkish.

Şirin f Turkish
Turkish form of Shirin.

Solmaz f Turkish, Azerbaijani, Persian
Means "unfading, unwilting" in Turkish and Azerbaijani, a negative form of the Turkic root sol "to fade, to wilt".

Soner m Turkish
From Turkish son meaning "last, final" and er meaning "man, hero, brave".

Songül f Turkish
From Turkish son meaning "last, final" and gül meaning "rose".

Su 1 f Turkish
Means "water" in Turkish.

Sude f Turkish
Turkish form of Soudeh.

Sudenaz f Turkish (Modern)
Combination of Sude and Naz.

Süheyl m Turkish
Turkish form of Suhail.

Süheyla f Turkish
Turkish feminine form of Suhail.

Şükri m Turkish
Turkish form of Shukri.

Şükriye f Turkish
Turkish form of Shukriyya.

Şule f Turkish
Means "flame" in Turkish.

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, Indonesian
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.

Sümeyye f Turkish
Turkish form of Sumayya.

Suna f Turkish
From the Turkish word for a type of duck, the shelduck (genus Tadorna).

Süreyya f Turkish
Turkish form of Thurayya.

Suzan 2 f Turkish
From Persian سوزان (sūzān) meaning "burning".

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