45 Beautiful Turkish Girl Names & Their Meanings

Turkish is the official language of Turkey and it has been influenced by Arabic and Farsi. I have selected 45 beautiful Turkish baby girl names with their meanings also included.

List Of 45 Beautiful Turkish Girl Names & Their Meanings:

Ayla

Ayla is related to Aylanur and Aylin and it means “halo of light around the moon.” In Hebrew Ayla is symbolizing “oak tree.” It grew in popularity after the 2017 war film Ayla: The Daughter of War.

Nilay

Nilay is composed of the elements ”nil” (that means the river Nile) and ”ay” (moon).

Elif

Elif has its origins in the first letter of the Arabic alphabet. Elif opens several chapters of the Quran via ḥurūf al-muqaṭṭaʿāt (the disconnected letters) Alif-Lām-Mīm.

Derya

Derya comes from the word “deniz” that means “sea.” It is also used for boys and I actually wrote a piece about Turkish boy names.

Ebrar

”Virtuous.” It’s the Turkish form of Arabic al-Abrar, “the righteous.”

Simay

Simay is meaning ‘glitter moon’ or ‘silver moon.’

Yağmur

Yağmur is composed of the Old Turkic verb yağ- (“to rain”) and the suffix ”-mur.” It is pronounced “yaa-moor.”

Pinar

Pinar means ‘fountain’ or ‘spring.’ Pınar Et was founded in 1985 and is one of Turkey’s biggest household food brands.

Damla

“Drop” (of water or rain).

Ceren

Ceren has roots in the word ”ceylan” (gazelle or deer).

Lale

Lale is symbolizing ‘tulip’ flowers that are originally from Central Asia. If you didn’t know the first Tulip Fanatics were in the Ottoman Empire. They started cultivating tulips by the 16th century.

Nazli

Nazli (”the one who is delicate and coy”) is from the Persian ”naz” (that means “coy”) and the Turkish “lı” (”to have”).

Ipek

İpek means ”silk.”

Berrak

Berrak is from the word “berrak” that is meaning ”pure.” Actress Berrak Tüzünataç bears this name.

Sena

Sena means ”glory” or ”praise” in Turkish.

Melis

Melis has origins in the word meli (”bee”).

Duru

Duru (clear or pure) is also found in Persian.

Ela

Ela (“hazel”) is also spelled Elâ. In Aramaic Ela means “oak.”

Beste

”Melody.”

Gökçe

Gökçe is made of the Turkish elements “gök” (“blue”) and the suffix “çe.”

Işil

Işıl is symbolizing ”brilliant” or ”shining.”

Naz

“Coquettish.”

Ceylan

Ceylan means “gazelle.”

Eylül

Eylül is meaning the month ‘September.’

Defne

“Laurel leaf.” It’s the Turkish form of Daphne who is the nymph that became the laurel tree to escape Apollo.

Zümra

Zümra means ”emerald.”

Şirin

“Beautiful.” Şirin is also used by boys.

Bahar

Bahar is from the Middle Persian wahār that means ”spring.” Al-Bahr is the Arabic variant.

Selin

Selin (“flowing water”) is the name of biologist Selin Balci. Selene is the Greek variant.

Nehir

Nehir has roots in the Arabic word “nehr” (river) and Nehi is a diminutive that I like. “For them are gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide forever.” (Qur’an 9:89).

Asli

Asli is from the Arabic root word asl and means genuine. It is mentioned in the 16th-century Turkic tale “Kerem ile Aslı” as a nickname for the main character.

Tuana

‘The first raindrop that falls in paradise.’

Reyhan

Reyhan is symbolizing ”the sweet basil plant.”

Sedef

Sedef means ”mother-of-pearl.” Sedef Island is the smallest of Istanbul’s Princes’ Islands.

Gonca

Gonca comes from “ghonche” (that means “bud of a rose”).

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Feray

Feray means ‘the Moon’s radiance.’

Cansu

Cansu is made of the words ”can” (spirit or life) and ”su” (that means ”water”).

Meltem

“Sea breeze.”

Buse

Buse is the Persian word ‘būse’ that is symbolizing ”a kiss.”

Ezgi

Ezgi means ”melody” or ”tune.”

Nur

Nur comes from Arabic and has a meaning that I love, “radiance.” Surah An-Nur: “Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth.”

Hazal

Hazal (gazelle) has origins in the Kurdish (Xezal). Hazal Kaya is one of Turkey’s highest-paid actresses.

Aysima

Aysima is combining ‘Ay’ (moon) and ‘Sima’ (that means ”countenance”). So one meaning of Aysima that I find intriguing is “she who has a face as beautiful as the moon.”

Elmas

”Diamond.”

Bade

Bade has roots in the Persian bâde (”wine”).