Turkish Submitted Surnames

Turkish names are used in the country of Turkey, which is situated in western Asia and southeastern Europe. Turkey is part of the larger Muslim world. See also about Turkish names.
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Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.
Polat Turkish
Means "steel" in Persian. Many Turkish Oghuz descendants are using this surname.
Poyraz Turkish
Means "north wind" in Turkish, of Greek origin.
Recepoğlu Turkish
Means "son of Recep".
Sabah Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Turkish
From the given name Sabah.
Safa Persian, Turkish, Arabic, Urdu
From the given names Safaa or Safaa'.
Şafak Turkish
Means "dawn" in Turkish.
Sağır Turkish
Means "deaf" in Turkish.
Sağlam Turkish
Means "firm, hard, strong" in Turkish.
Sak Turkish
Means "conscious, awake" or "stalk, stem" in Turkish.
Saka Turkish
Either an occupational name for a seller or deliverer of water or a nickname meaning "goldfinch".
Sakallı Turkish
Means "bearded" in Turkish.
Salman Arabic, Urdu, Turkish
From the given name Salman.
San Turkish
Means "reputation, fame, glory" in Turkish.
Sancak Turkish
Means "flag, banner, emblem" in Turkish.
Şanlı Turkish
Means "famous, glorious, magnificent" in Turkish.
Saraç Turkish
Means "saddler, saddlemaker" in Turkish.
Sarı Turkish
Means "yellow, blond" in Turkish.
Sarıkaya Turkish
From Turkish sarı meaning "yellow" and kaya meaning "rock, cliff".
Sarikaya Turkish
Sarıkaya is a Turkish word meaning "yellow rock".
Sarilar Turkish
Means ''yellows'' in Turkish. A common place name in Turkey.
Sarıtaş Turkish
Directly translated from Turkish, sarı means "yellow" and taş means "stone".... [more]
Şaşmaz Turkish
Means "infallible" in Turkish.
Savaş Turkish
From the given name Savaş.
Saygı Turkish
Means "respect, esteem" in Turkish.
Saygılı Turkish
Means "respectful, reverential" in Turkish.
Sayın Turkish
Means "dear, esteemed" in Turkish.
Sazak Turkish
Sazak means soft, warm breeze.
Seçkin Turkish
Means "exclusive, elite" or "distinguished, outstanding" in Turkish.
Sefer Turkish
From the given name Sefer.
Seferoğlu Turkish
Means "son of Sefer" in Turkish.
Şeker Turkish
Means "sugar, candy" in Turkish.
Şekerci Turkish
Means "confectioner, candy seller" in Turkish.
Semiz Turkish
Means "fat" in Turkish.
Şen Turkish
Means "happy, cheerful" in Turkish.
Şener Turkish
From the given name Şener.
Şengül Turkish
From Turkish şen meaning "happy, cheerful" and gül meaning "rose".
Şenol Turkish
From the given name Şenol.
Şentürk Turkish
From Turkish şen meaning "happy, cheerful" and Türk meaning "Turk".
Serbest Turkish
Means "free, unconstrained" in Turkish.
Serdar Turkish, Croatian
Turkish form of Persian sardar, meaning "chief", "leader", "field marshal".
Şeremet Turkish
Means "poor man" in some turkic languages.
Serin Turkish
Means "cool, chilly, fresh" in Turkish.
Sert Turkish
Means "hard, stiff, stern" in Turkish.
Seven Turkish
Means "loving, affectionate" in Turkish.
Sever Turkish
Means "lover, spirited, fond" in Turkish.
Sevim Turkish
Means "love" in Turkish.
Sevimli Turkish
Means "cute, lovely, charming, pleasant" in Turkish.
Sevinç Turkish
Means "joy, happiness" in Turkish.
Sezer Turkish
Means "intuition", from Turkish sezmek meaning "to understand, to perceive".
Sezgin Turkish
Means "sagacious, insightful" in Turkish.
Shakerchi Turkish
Of Turkish origin, the most widely reported origin and meaning is “Sugarman” in English. The name Shakerchi is a nickname or a surname that has been adopted by individuals with Turkish heritage... [more]
Şimşek Turkish
Means "lightning, flash" in Turkish.
Şinasi Turkish, Persian
roughly meaning 'Knowing ' or' seeker of knowledge'
Sinema Haitian Creole, Swahili, Turkish
The name Ireally doesI mean "Movie Theater" ("Cinema"). Other related words: "Picture, Charades, Bilet."
Şirin Turkish
Means "pretty, cute, pleasant" in Turkish, ultimately of Persian origin.
Şişman Turkish
Means "fat, stout" in Turkish.
Sivri Turkish
Means "pointed, sharp" in Turkish.
Söğüt Turkish
Means "willow" in Turkish.
Solmaz Turkish
Means "colourfast, unfading" in Turkish.
Sönmez Turkish
Means "eternal, inextinguishable, unquenchable" in Turkish.
Soydan Turkish (Modern)
Soy, "lineage, ancestry" and dan "from"; One who has come down from good ancestry (a good family)
Soylu Turkish
Means "noble" in Turkish.
Soysal Turkish
Means "noble, highborn" in Turkish.
Sucu Turkish
Means "waterman, water carrier" in Turkish.
Süleymanoğlu Turkish
Means "son of Süleyman", from the given name Süleyman combined with the Turkish patronymic suffix -oğlu.
Sungur Turkish
Means "falcon" in Turkish.
Sürücü Turkish
Means "driver" in Turkish.
Tabak Turkish
Occupational name for a tanner
Taciroğlu Turkish
Taciroğlu is a last name adopted by a merchant family in Turkey in January 1934. It literally means "Son of Merchant". "Tacir" is an Arabic word (" التاجر ") in origin which means trader in Turkish... [more]
Tan Turkish
Means "dawn, daybreak" in Turkish.
Taş Turkish
Means "stone" in Turkish.
Taşçı Turkish
Means "stonemason, stonecutter" in Turkish.
Taşdemir Turkish
From Turkish taş meaning "stone" and demir meaning "iron".
Taşkın Turkish
Means "flood" in Turkish.
Taşkıran Turkish
Means "stone breaker" from Turkish taş meaning "stone, rock" and kıran meaning "destroyer, breaker, pestilence".
Taştan Turkish
Means "stone" in Turkish.
Tatlı Turkish
Means "sweet, pleasant, agreeable" in Turkish.
Tek Turkish
Means "single, sole, unique" in Turkish.
Teker Turkish
Means "disk, wheel" in Turkish.
Tekin Turkish
From an Old Turkish title meaning "prince".
Temel Turkish
From the given name Temel.
Temiz Turkish
Means "clean, neat, pure" in Turkish.
Tepe Turkish
Means "hill, top, peak" in Turkish.
Terakgi Ottoman Turkish, Turkish (Anglicized, Rare), Arabic
Now mainly used as an arabic surname, mainly in Syria or lebanon. This last name possibliy comes from "Tarak Yapımcısı" which means combmaker. This surname can be spelt as "Terakgi" if a arab or a turkish person were to move to an english speaking nation.
Tetik Turkish
Means "vigilant, watchful, alert" in Turkish.
Tezcan Turkish
Means "impetuous, impatient, excited" in Turkish.
Tok Turkish
Means "sated, full" in Turkish.
Tokmak Turkish
Means "mallet" in Turkish.
Top Turkish
Means "ball, cannon" in Turkish.
Topal Turkish
Means "lame, crippled" in Turkish.
Topçu Turkish
Means "cannoneer, gunner, artilleryman" in Turkish.
Toprak Turkish
Means "earth, soil, land" in Turkish.
Topuz Turkish
Means "mace, knob, club" in Turkish.
Toraman Turkish
Means "powerful young person, someone who looks big for his age" in Turkish.
Torun Turkish
Means "grandchild" in Turkish.
Tosun Turkish
Means "bullock" or "healthy, plump, stout" in Turkish.
Toy Turkish
Means "callow, naive" or "amateur, unexperienced" in Turkish.
Toziya Turkish
From Rumelian.
Tufan Turkish
From the given name Tufan.
Tüfekçi Turkish
Means "gunsmith" in Turkish.
Tuna Turkish
From the Turkish name for the Danube River, which flows through parts of Central and Southeastern Europe.
Tunç Turkish
From the given name Tunç.
Tuncer Turkish
Derived from Turkish tunç meaning ''bronze''.
Turan Turkish
Refers to Turan, an historical region in Central Asia inhabited by the nomadic Iranian Turanian people. The name itself means "land of the Tur" and is derived from the name of a Persian mythological figure, Tur (تور).
Turgut Turkish
From the given name Turgut.
Turhan Turkish
From the given name Turhan.
Türk Turkish
Türk means "Turk" in Turkish.
Türkmen Turkish, Turkmen
Refers to a Turkmen person (someone from the present-day nation of Turkmenistan). The ethnonym itself is believed to be derived from Türk combined with the Sogdian suffix -man (thus meaning "almost Turk") or from Türk combined with Arabic إِيمَان (ʾīmān) meaning "faith, belief, religion".
Türkmenoğlu Turkish
Means "son of a Turkmen".
Türkoğlu Turkish
Means "son of a Turk" in Turkish.
Tütüncü Turkish
Occupational name for a grower or seller of tobacco, from Turkish tütün meaning "tobacco".
Tuzla Turkish
From a city in Bosnia named "Tuzla" or "salt mine". Formally occupied by the Ottoman Empire.
Uçak Turkish
Means "airplane" in Turkish.
Uçan Turkish
Means "flying" or "fugitive, volatile" in Turkish.
Uçar Turkish
Means "flying, volatile" in Turkish.
Uğur Turkish
From the given name Uğur.
Uğurlu Turkish
Means "lucky, successful" in Turkish.
Ülger Turkish
Means "villus, fine hair" in Turkish.
Ülker Turkish
Means "the Pleiades" in Turkish.
Ulukaya Turkish
From Turkish ulu meaning "great, large, exalted" and kaya meaning "rock".
Ulusoy Turkish
Means "great lineage", derived from Turkish ulu meaning "supreme, great, exalted" combined with soy meaning "ancestry, lineage".
Ünal Turkish
Means "become famous" or "become well-known" in Turkish.
Ünlü Turkish
Means "famous, celebrity" in Turkish.
Ünver Turkish
From the given name Ünver.
Uslu Turkish
Means "well-behaved, obedient" in Turkish.
Usta Turkish
Means "master" in Turkish.
Üstün Turkish
Means "superior, outstanding, excellent" in Turkish.
Uyanık Turkish
Means "awake, watchful, vigilant" in Turkish.
Uyar Turkish
Means "notify, alert, caution" in Turkish.
Uygun Turkish
Means "available, suitable, fitting" in Turkish.
Uygur Turkish
From the ethnic group called the "Uyghur" in western China.
Uysal Turkish
Means "docile, easygoing, peaceful" in Turkish.
Uz Turkish
Means "beautiful, good, skillful" in Turkish.
Üzüm Turkish
Means "grape" in Turkish.
Vahapoğlu Turkish
Means "son of Vahap".
Vural Turkish
Derived from the given name Vural.
Yağcı Turkish
Means "oil seller" in Turkish.
Yağız Turkish
From the given name Yağız.
Yakut Turkish
Means "ruby" in Turkish.
Yalçın Turkish
From the given name Yalçın.
Yalçınkaya Turkish
Means "steep rock", derived from Turkish yalçın meaning "steep" and kaya meaning "rock, cliff".
Yaldız Turkish
Means "gilding" in Turkish.
Yalman Turkish
Means "steep" in Turkish. Synonymous with the given name "Sarp".
Yaman Turkish
Means "intelligent, capable, efficient" in Turkish.
Yanar Turkish
Means "burns, lights, combusts" in Turkish.
Yanık Turkish
Means "burn, scald" in Turkish.
Yapıcı Turkish
Means "builder, maker, constructor" in Turkish.
Yaprak Turkish
Means "leaf" in Turkish.
Yarar Turkish
Means "benefit, profit, gain" in Turkish.
Yardım Turkish
Means "help, aid" in Turkish.
Yardımcı Turkish
Means "helper, assistant, aide" in Turkish.
Yaşar Turkish
From the given name Yaşar.
Yavaş Turkish
Means "slow, calm, soft" in Turkish.
Yavuz Turkish
Means "stern, tough" in Turkish.
Yayla Turkish
Means "mountain pasture, highland, plateau" in Turkish.
Yaylacıoğlu Turkish
Means "descendant of the nomad" from Turkish yaylacı meaning "nomad, highlander, transhumant".
Yazar Turkish
Means "writer, author" in Turkish.
Yazıcı Turkish
Means "writer" or "clerk" in Turkish.
Yaziji Turkish, Arabic
Arabic surname of Turkish origin meaning “clerk” or “writer”. Alternate spelling to Yazıcı.
Yel Turkish
Means "wind, breeze" in Turkish.
Yener Turkish
From the given name Yener.
Yeni Turkish
Means "new" in Turkish.
Yeşil Turkish
Means "green" in Turkish.
Yeşilgöz Turkish, Kurdish
Means "green eye" in Turkish and Kurdish. Dutch politician Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius (1977-) bears this name.
Yeter Turkish
Means "enough, sufficient" in Turkish.
Yetim Turkish
Means "orphan" in Turkish, ultimately from Arabic يتيم (yatim).
Yiğit Turkish
From the given name Yiğit.
Yiğitoğlu Turkish
Means "son of Yiğit".
Yıldırım Turkish
From the given name Yıldırım.
Yolcu Turkish
Means "passenger, traveller" in Turkish.
Yoldaş Turkish
Means "traveling companion" in Turkish.
Yörük Turkish
Means "nomad, walker" in Turkish.
Yorulmaz Turkish
Means "tireless, unfailing" in Turkish.
Yüce Turkish
Means "exalted, lofty, noble" in Turkish.
Yücel Turkish
Means "lofty, exalted" in Turkish.
Yüksek Turkish
Means "high, lofty, great, noble" in Turkish.
Yüksel Turkish
Means "increase, rise, ascend" in Turkish.
Zaim Turkish
Zaim may be a representation of the male Arabic given name Za'im / Zaeim (Arabic: ضعیم / زاعِم/ زاعيم‎), meaning leader, chief. Correspondingly al-Za'im (Arabic: الزعيم‎) means "the leader".
Zaimoğlu Turkish
Means "son of Zaim".
Zengin Turkish
Means "rich, wealthy" in Turkish, ultimately from Persian سنگين‏ (sangin).
Zerdali Turkish
Means "wild apricot."
Zorlu Turkish
Means "strong, powerful" in Turkish.