| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Language(s) | Turkish |
| Meaning | Ember Moon |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Corey |
Koray is a Turkish given name and a surname. It is composed of "Kor" and "Ay". In Turkish "Kor" means "Ember" and "Ay" means "Moon". Thus, "Koray" means "a moon in the colour of ember".
Notable people with the name include:
Ayla is a common feminine Turkish given name.
Deniz is a Turkish given name meaning "sea". It is used for both females and males.
Alpay is a masculine Turkish given name, and a surname. It derives from "alp"+"ay". In Turkish, "alp" means "stouthearted", "brave", "chivalrous", "daredevil", "valorous", and/or "gallant" and "ay" means "moon" " like moon" "handsome". "Alpay" means : a brave handsome man
Aila is a female given name found in several different languages, pronounced as "ay-luh" or "eye-luh" depending on origin. It is the Finnish equivalent of Helga or Olga, meaning "holy, blessed". In Scottish Gaelic, it means "from the strong place". It is also a variant spelling of the Turkish name Ayla and the Hebrew name Eilah. In Arabic and in Urdu, Aila means noble.
Ayhan is a unisex name with Turkish origin, which means 'king of the moon'. In Turkish literature, Ay means moon and Han means khan or king. Ayhan is a popular name throughout Asia and some parts of Europe. It is also used as a surname in Turkey.
Avcı is a Turkish given name and surname. Avcı or Avci may refer to:
İlkay is a common unisex Turkish given name. "İlkay" is composed of two words: "İlk" and "Ay". In Turkish, "İlk" means "first", and/or "prime", whereas "ay" means "moon". Thus, İlkay means "First moon".
Nilay is a female given name of Turkish origin. Ay means moon and Nil means the river Nile in Turkish language. The name means Moon of the Nile. People named Nilay include:
Berkay is a Turkish given name for males, derived from the Turkish words "berk" which means "bright like lightning" and "ay" which means "moon". Notable people named Berkay include:
Ayden is a Guanche and Irish male name or Turkish and Azerbaijani feminine given name and surname.
Aysu is a rare feminine Turkish given name. The name is produced by using two Turkish words: Ay and Su. In Turkish, "Ay" means "Moon" and "Su" means "Water". Therefore, it means "clear/lucid as moon and water".
Aybike is a common Turkish given name. The name is produced by using two Turkish words: Ay and Bike. In Turkish, "Ay" means "Moon" and "Bike" means "Princess" and/or "Woman". Therefore, it means "a (princess) woman as beautiful as the moon" or "a (princess) woman who has a face as beautiful as the moon"
Ayberk is a common masculine Turkish given name. It is composed of "Ay" and "Berk". In Turkish, "Ay" means "Moon". "Berk" means "Lightning", "Strong", or "Leaf" (rarely). Therefore, "Ayberk" means "Lightning like brightness of the moon".
Ayça is a common feminine Turkish given name. "Ayça" derives from "Ay". In Turkish, "Ay" means "Moon" and "Ayça" means the "Crescent".
Aytek is a Turkish masculine given name. The name is composed by one word and a suffix: Ay and -tek. In Turkish, "Ay" means Moon, and the suffix, "-tek" originally comes from Old Turkic suffix "-teg", which gives the meaning of "-like". The meaning of the name therefore is "like the Moon" or "Moonlike", or particularly "unique and/or bright like the Moon".
Altınay is a Turkic given name used in Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Turkish cultures. Predominantly a female name, it is occasionally used for males as well. The name is also found in Cuba. Altınay is also used as a surname in Turkey.
Miray is a Turkish female given name. According to the Turkish Language Institute Miray is a Turkish name created from the Persian root Mir and Turkish root Ay. Mir in Persian means leader and Ay in Turkish means the moon. Hence the Turkish Language Institute interprets the meaning of Miray as a "Leader that emanates light like the moon." According to Nişanyan Turkish names database Miray and Mirayşah are feminine names mostly given in the Western parts of Anatolia in Istanbul, İzmir, Bursa, Adana and in the east in the predominantly Turkish Elazığ. Miray is a feminine given name among Balkan Turks. Sevan Nişanyan points out that the origin of the name Miray is the Western Turkoman city of Aydın and finds a correlation with the use of the name Mirayşe which is the short form of Emir Ayşe. He speculates that Emir Ayşe first evolved to Mirayşe and finally to Miray.Mirayşe to Miray per Nişanyan
Serdar is the Turkic spelling of the Persian masculine given name Sardar which generally means "commander " but could also bear the meaning "field marshal". Notable people with the name include:
Koray Avcı may refer to:
Aybars is a Turkish forename meaning either "gray/yellow leopard" or "leopard of the moon", related to Turkic mythology. The stem of the name comes from "ay" and "bars". However, according to Pritsak and Nişanyan, the first word is "oy" rather than "ay", which means 'gray' or 'yellow' or 'brown', hence the meaning of the name is 'yellow/gray/brown leopard', referencing to lion.