Uncommon Turkish Boy Names
Turkish names include vocabulary names and forms shared with neighboring languages. Every name shown is outside the latest U.S. Top 1000 for the sex displayed, including names without a published count that year. 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 1958. | 184#1,147 | Up 153 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1947. | 184#1,148 | Up 182 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1886. | 7#9,978 | Down 4,459 rank positions in five years | 1920 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1917. | 181#1,157 | Up 5 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1974. | 107#1,598 | Up 396 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1966. | 161#1,243 | Up 192 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1925. | 11#7,316 | Down 1,265 rank positions in five years | 1984 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1991. | 87#1,829 | Down 205 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Turkish as Mikâil; in U.S. records from 1984. | 47#2,742 | Up 267 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1883. | —Unranked | — | 1919 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1970. | 34#3,383 | Down 835 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1971. | 50#2,638 | Down 60 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1969. | 50#2,639 | Up 428 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1960. | 19#5,142 | Up 1,038 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1968. | 10#7,713 | Up 410 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1959. | 10#7,689 | Down 1,984 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1970. | 11#7,272 | Up 333 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1981. | 29#3,833 | Up 2,409 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1973. | 10#7,856 | Down 669 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1999. | 12#6,851 | Up 2,827 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 2000. | 14#6,330 | Up 2,931 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1974. | 11#7,239 | Up 1,577 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1982. | —Unranked | — | 2005 | ||
Recorded in Turkish; in U.S. records from 1999. | —Unranked | — | 2017 |
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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.