Entry № 10789 · French origin

Turquoise Turquoise — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TUR-koyz /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"A blue-green gemstone"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a blue-green gemstone".

Turquoise is the beloved blue-green stone, prized for thousands of years; its name means the Turkish stone, for its route into Europe.

Vivid and earthy, it is a jewel name full of colour.

A blue-green gemstone — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Turquoise
Transliteration
Turquoise
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɚ.kɔɪz /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Turquoise stands.

Turquoise does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Turquoises before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Turquoise.

The number behind Turquoise.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Turquoise reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.