Short Turkish Boy Names
Turkish names include vocabulary names and forms shared with neighboring languages. Every spelling here has five letters or fewer, making the written length easy to compare. The figures describe these spellings in U.S. records; they are not rankings in the source language’s home countries.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1914. | 1,116#306 | Up 18 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1949. | 698#450 | Up 123 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1977. | 556#541 | Up 119 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1984. | 67#2,160 | Up 554 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1972. | 6#11,828 | Down 2,371 rank positions in five years | 2004 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1975. | 15#5,998 | Up 468 rank positions in five years | 2001 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1984. | 36#3,266 | Up 94 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1976. | —Unranked | — | 1994 | ||
Recorded in Turkish as Kayın; in U.S. records from 1977. | 8#9,315 | Down 172 rank positions in five years | 2001 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1976. | 6#11,528 | Down 3,028 rank positions in five years | 1997 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1996. | 33#3,450 | Up 468 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1955. | —Unranked | — | 1966 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1997. | 97#1,698 | Up 2,990 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1985. | 11#7,198 | Down 1,216 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1969. | 23#4,475 | Down 1,020 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1965. | 8#9,618 | Up 2,265 rank positions in five years | 1987 | ||
Recorded in Turkish as Akın; in U.S. records from 1971. | 12#6,816 | Up 5,279 rank positions in five years | 1998 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1984. | 50#2,607 | Up 2,103 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1976. | 10#8,134 | Up 478 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Recorded in Turkish as Özan; in U.S. records from 1992. | 17#5,547 | Down 1,041 rank positions in five years | 2020 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1997. | 10#7,831 | Down 673 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1913. | 6#11,089 | Up 1,551 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
Recorded in Turkish as Nazım; in U.S. records from 1977. | 5#13,317 | new | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 2001. | 13#6,556 | Up 2,400 rank positions in five years | 2007 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.