Given name & surname
Aydın
“light”
Aydın is a unisex given name from Ottoman Turkish. It is used in Turkish and Azerbaijani.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Aydın is a romanization of آیدین. آیدین means “light.”
Explained through its name family
Aydın’s family of names
In Azerbaijani usage, Aydın shares a linguistic root with the Ottoman Turkish form آیدین. In Kazakh usage, Aydın is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Айдын. In Turkish usage, Aydın continues an earlier form in آیدین.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Aydın has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Turkish roots to each of them.
4 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Aydın
- Aydın PolatçıTurkish wrestler (born 1977)
- Aydın YılmazTurkish association football player (born 1988)
- Aydın DoğanTurkish businessperson (born 1936)
- Aydın SayılıTurkish historian of science (1913–1993)
- Aydin SuleymanliTurkish-Azerbaijani chess player (born 2005)
- Aydın KarabulutTurkish association football player (born 1988)
- Aydın BoysanTurkish architect (1921–2018)
- Aydın Güven GürkanTurkish academic and statesperson (1941–2006)
- Aydın ToscalıTurkish association football player (born 1980)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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