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Pages in category "Turkish-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 867 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The surname (soyad, literally "lineage name" or "family name") is an ancestry-based name following a person's given names, used for addressing people or the family. [11] The surname (soyadı) is a single word according to Turkish law such as Akay or Özdemir. It is not gender-specific and has no gender-dependent modifications.
Pages in category "Surnames of Turkish origin" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. ... Göle (Turkish surname) Güner; H. Halman (surname)
Turkish-language surnames (867 P) Turkmen-language surnames (17 P) U. Uyghur-language surnames (4 P) Uzbek-language surnames (34 P) ... Tajik (surname) Tuzmukhamedov
The Surname Law (Turkish: Soyadı Kanunu) of the Republic of Turkey is a law adopted on 21 June 1934, [1] requiring all citizens of Turkey to adopt the use of fixed, hereditary surnames. Prior to 1934, Turkish families in the major urban centres had names by which they were known locally (often ending with the suffixes -zade , -oğlu or -gil ...
The surname was generally selected by the elderly people of the family and could be any Turkish word (or a permitted word for families belonging to official minority groups). Some of the most common family names in Turkey are Yılmaz ('undaunted'), Doğan ('falcon'), Şahin ('hawk'), Yıldırım ('thunderbolt'), Şimşek ('lightning'), Öztürk ...
Kurt or Kurd is a Turkish name and surname literally meaning "wolf". [1] Ahmet Kurt Pasha, 18th Century Ottoman governor; Elvira Kurt (Kürt Elvíra), Hungarian-born Canadian comedian; Hamide Kurt (born 1993), Turkish female Paralympian athlete; İpar Özay Kurt (born 2003), Turkey women's volleyball player
Osman or Usman is the Turkish, Persian, and Urdu transliteration of the Arabic masculine given name Uthman.. In England, however, Osman is an English surname whose history dates back to the wave of migration that followed the Norman conquest of England in 1066, though it is pronounced with a long "o".