Arzu as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Arzu

What is the meaning of the name Arzu ?

The baby name Arzu is a Female name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced ahr-ZOO (IPA: /ɑrˈzu/).

Arzu is Turkish in Origin.

Arzu is a predominantly feminine given name from Persian آرزو (ārzū), meaning “wish, desire, or longing,” carried into Ottoman and then modern Turkish and Azerbaijani; it also appears in Persian- and Urdu-speaking contexts. The word has strong literary resonance, evoking aspiration and heartfelt yearning, and in Turkish it also connotes “wish” or “request.”

Attested for centuries as a poetic term in classical Persian and Ottoman verse, Arzu gained steady use as a personal name in Turkey in the mid–20th century and became widely familiar by the 1970s–1990s, with continuing use across the Turkish and Azerbaijani diaspora. Common variants and transliterations include Arzoo (Urdu/Hindi), Arezu, Arezou, and Arezoo (Persian), and Arzū in scholarly transliteration. Cognate or thematically related Turkish choices include Özlem (“longing”) and Umut (“hope”). The name’s concise form and cross-cultural readability make it a modern yet tradition-rooted option.