ANY SUGGESTIONS

furkan

mehmet

mehmet ali
haha very popular...

..ERDAL.. bebeğim...

huseyin, ahmet, fatih,

How about the name "Ilker"? Does it count?

Bora / Mete / Kubilay / Attila / Atilla / Ongun
Kaan / Ates /

How about the name 'Güven'? As i know it's rare enough but modern.

Güven, Fatih and Mehmet are very popular in Turkey in my opion

Adem

cumali

Ege
Efe
Can
Mert
Doruk
Berk
Emre
Emir
Orçun

I met someone on holiday who was called özkan.. I really liked that name

Hi everybody..

What about Selahattin name?

Others names:
Ali
Raşid
Ismail
Ibrahim
Halil
Emre

ciao!! bye bye!!

Here is the link for names,olds and news and its including meanings of the names , ofcourse its turkish

http://www.adaminsitesi.com/erkek_isimleri.htm

While many names mentioned above are popular, some of them are too traditional. I think a modern name has to have a modern influence.
Many names in Turkish carry an image. If you say the name without referring to a certain person, in other words, even if you talk about Turkish names just as nouns, some people will have an image in mind of that word. If this image is more likely to be a traditional image than it is not modern.
I think likes and dislikes of the families determine the image of names. Some names are more common in certain social environments while some are not. There are such names in Turkish that are less likely to be heard in traditional families. Therefore a traditional social environment might influence the parents for a traditional name. It is less likley that parent will decide on a name that they haven't heard much in their social environment.

Actually for male names it is different than female names. There are much more sophisticated, modern and inspiring female names than there are male names in Turkish. Maybe it is because some names are considered to be too soft for males and therefore there was less creativity on this subject.

Of course I'm just talking about the mental picture that words carry. I'm not talking about real life. Real life doesnt match always with our images.
I have once come accross to a few surrealists who were talking about the images that Turkish names carry. I'm not sure if I can be as good as these guys but I could describe the picture of a name or two that you have choosen if you write that name.
Anyway here is my list:

Mert
Berk
Berke
Emre
Burak
Mete
Ogün
Tolga
Arda
Tuna
Tunç
Teoman

http://www.just-think-it.com/sbn/turkishm.htm

why modern names? I find the current names facinating.
Ahmet, Abdul etc - lovely - keep the wonderful tradition that facinates me (from South Africa)
Myra

My favorite male name are
Oktay
Baha
Hasan

ooh i like hasan too. and zeki, erol and ali.

Berke,Berkay,Ercan,Özgürcan..popular..

Abdülselam,Abdülmecit,Muttalip...not popular...

onur?
okan?
can?
volkan?

Hakan,Gökhan/Gökan, Hasan, Cem...

How about Yuksel/Erdem/Şukri/Amir/Caner/Onur/Emin/Bürhan/Erkan/Osman/Nihat/Musa.....i listed all of my turkish friends here

beautiful names

I read all names counted here.....
My favourite name is not here....And I cought myself on a thought that I even glad about it (Maybe it is hard to understand
YUSUF.

and mine favourite is missing too

Güneş

I thought Güneş is a female name..Isn't it?

Onur
Mehmet
Ali
Kemal
Unal
Cem
Furkan
Levent
Murat

Nobody mentioned about Engin!! iSnt it cute?

Thank you about your commentThis is my bf`s name..I think its very modern ,but not very popular.


and by the way the frase you asked means Yakup the son of the prophet

to Derya: thank you very much for translation. I took this definition from here http://www.adaminsitesi.com/erkek_isimleri.htm and I thought that Yakup means something and it was the only word I couldn't translate.But I think it is a misprint. And I think they ment Yusuf son of prophet.
Derya, teşekkur ederimEgin really sounds nice. Actually I think we always will like names of our boyfriends (in my case ex-bf(((

to Derya: sorry, now I made a misprint in a name(Excuse me.. have a nice evening

Anyone who wants the meaning of any name send it here or via PM and I will tell you what it means

osman

Hope you do not use Internet sites for popular baby names. I've found many wrong explanations there. I offer my help too, for I have some very good etymology dictionaries, including dictionary of names.

Regards

I like (((Burak ))) dont know if its modern or popular though

o and Murat but thats just an old flames name
hahahha

My favorite turkish male names are:

İsmail
Murat
Gökhan
Burak
Erol
Furkan
Muzaffer
Ibrahim
Adnan
Emre
Emrah
and all whıch begin wıth 'Ö'

But İsmail ıs my favorıte ,
Sometımes I have problems wıth turkısh names because of the gender and I wonder , ıs thıs person male or female? because the contex (for a foreıgner) ıs not that clear.

Dilara (my favorıte turkısh female name)

and my favourite names are:

Mehmet
Kemal
Osman
Murat

and I would like to know what are the meanings of my friends names, could you help me with translation?

1) SAİT : Mübarek, kutlu - Sevap kazanmış

2) DURAN : Varlığını sürdüren-Dağ yolu-Dingin,sakin



Selamlar

caliptrix: Thank You very much for answering my last question and I have one more

I love the name Evgin

I meet mostly people which names are either Murat, Mehmet, Serkan or Mustafa. Also come across some Volkans As to rare...Mahir, Can, Onder and perhaps Ãœmit.

But i find female names far more beautiful and various

my favourite boys names are İsmail and Osman.

Hi,

i can add the following names of turkish boys and at the same time they are my friends indeed:

yılgun
Ahmet
Çağrı
Eren
Fatıh
Haktan

They are all nıce people ı met

I think he didn't say that we don't use Arabic origin names. He said that they are becoming less popular with time. If we were using 70% Arabic origin names for males 20 years ago, nowadays we are using maybe 50% so they are becoming less popular and more modern names are becoming more popular.

Erdinç is my real name but it is not my only name. I have two forenames and Erdinç is the second one. I don't use the first one because it is Arabic origin.

im sad all the turkish names i no have been said already like [osman]and [berk] but i no one that hasnt which is, [olgun] im not sad now

It is not stricktly about this topic but can anyboyd tell me what these names mean: Hilmi, Davut
Thanks a lot

İ guess, Hilmi means the patient one
And Davut is a prophet name,the Father of The prophet Süleymen.
King Süleymen.

Any correction is much welcome .

Sorry ,
İ will correct it .

Davut is of Semit/Hebrew origin, from hebr. Dawidh - "beloved, friend".

how about.... erhan? suleyman? mustafa? ercan? turgut? mehmet? gokhan? ufuk? kerim? talip? xxx

My husbands!

Cheto!
Mehmet
Illias

Mustafa
Mehmet
Asil - {Genuine}
Hakan - {emperor, noble, fiery}
Murat - {Wish, desire}
Volkan - {Volcano}
Emir - {Prince}
Tarkan
Türkan
Kemal

Also:
Ismail, Aslan, etc.
uğurcan
Pars

geez, seems i wont be able to decide if i had a son one day.
so let the mother do the naming!

en sevgidim erkek isimleri abi
tufan,mert,gokhan,emir,can,baran,umut,selim,bariş, cenk, savaş, özcan,deniz,tarik,bora,alper,ayberk,bartu,berke,

evet aklima gelenler bunlar aklima geldikce yazarim dermisim kimin oglu olursa bu isimlerden birini secsin

Yusuf (Joseph)
Davud (David)
İbrahim (Abraham)
Yakup (Jacob)
İshak (Isaac)
Musa (Moses)

mine has to be
bulent
murat
ali
adem
kemal

mine has to be
bulent
murat
ali
adem
kemal

Well...didnt read all of the posts here, however allow me to let me list some of my turkish friends here:

Selcuk, Alperen, Berkan, Emre, Arda, Omer, Gulcan, Lale, Izmihan, Mahmutcan, Alpercan, Esen....

I would say the contracted names like Alpercan and Mahmutcan carry quite some beautiness...

Cees (Holland)

I think how a name as a word sounds shouldn't have the priority to pick it up. It may sound nice, but doesn't have a nice meaning or a meaning at all.

For example; I wouldn't name my son "çelik"(= steel).

I have a female student whose name is "Tülgin". When I asked her what it meant. She told me that it was the blending of his mother's name's first syllable and his father's name's second syllable. (Betül + Engin).

And also one of my students told me that one of her friend's name was "Bertaç". His mother named him "Bertaç" (the blending of "Berat" and "Sertaç") as she couldn't decide to name his son whether "Berat" or "Sertaç". She decided on "Bertaç" finally.

If you can't decide on a certain name you can blend two or more than two names.

You can see the meanings of Turkish names at the below link.


http://www.aravizyon.com/adanlamlari.asp

What about the names; "Kaya", "Tunç" and the likes

I love the name Tayfun (:

Other favorites are Gökhan,Furkan,Okan,and Yusef..

I don't know much about Turkish names.
But my friend's name is Emre, as if a very common name.hehe/