Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

Türkiye Soyadları·Sources

Sources

Every source used on the site: official statistics, law texts, dictionaries and open data, each with its publisher, licence and what it feeds.

This page lists every source the site uses: who publishes it, under what licence we use it, and what it feeds on the site.

How are the sources grouped?

We group them in four sets:

  • Official statistics. Surname counts and population figures come from TÜİK’s ADNKS register. NVİ figures are taken only from the press reports in which they were released, and are shown as a separate register.
  • Law texts. The Surname Law, the Surname Regulation, the law abolishing titles, the Turkish Civil Code and the Population Services Law. Texts come from mevzuat.gov.tr and the Resmî Gazete archive.
  • Dictionaries and reference works. Nişanyan Sözlük (the origin of words), Nişanyan Adlar (the meaning of personal names) and, on the pages that cite it, TDK’s Güncel Türkçe Sözlük. On surname pages these dictionaries are listed before Wiktionary. We copy no text from them; meanings are written in our own words.
  • Open data. Wikidata and Wikipedia help establish the list of surnames and their notable bearers. Wiktionary and Vikisözlük are cited as a supplementary source for word senses. Natural Earth supplies province boundaries.

Which sources do we not use?

We do not copy the meaning notes of other surname sites or crawl their pages. A surname is a fact; someone else’s write-up of it is their work.

We also avoid lists whose origin is unclear. The list of “banned surname endings” that circulates widely online, for example, does not appear in the text of the Surname Regulation, so we do not attribute it to the Regulation.

When a figure’s only source is a news report, we list that report as a separate source and keep its date and address.

How are licences respected?

Official legislation is not protected by copyright under Article 31 of Türkiye’s Law on Intellectual and Artistic Works, No. 5846. TÜİK data is used with attribution. From news agency reports we take facts only, and every figure keeps the report’s date and address.

Wikidata is CC0. Wiktionary and Wikipedia are CC BY-SA 4.0. From them we take facts such as titles, links and word senses, and we never copy their definitions.

The sources are also described, together with how the numbers are calculated, on the Methodology page. If you spot a gap or an error in the list, tell us as described on the Corrections page.

  1. Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (TÜİK) · ADNKS TÜİK Nüfus İsim Portalı — En çok kullanılan soyisimler (ADNKS), Türkiye + 81 il, ilk 30, sayılarla National and provincial top-30 surnames with rank and count (2018–2025) TÜİK open statistics; reuse allowed with attribution
  2. Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (TÜİK) · ADNKS TÜİK ADNKS — Cinsiyete göre nüfus, Türkiye ve 81 il (toplam, erkek, kadın) National and provincial population; per-1,000, “1 in N” and classroom maths TÜİK open statistics; reuse allowed with attribution
  3. Alomaliye (source: TÜİK) · ADNKS Alomaliye (6 Feb 2024): reproduction of TÜİK “Adrese Dayalı Nüfus Kayıt Sistemi Sonuçları, 2023” (coverage notes) ADNKS coverage: who is counted Official announcement; cited for facts only
  4. Anadolu Ajansı (figures: NVİ, İçişleri Bakanlığı) · NVİ AA (17 Jul 2021): Türkiye'de en yaygın kullanılan soyadları Yılmaz, Kaya ve Demir — NVİ figures Top three surnames with counts from the NVİ register (2021), labelled separately Official announcement; cited for facts only
  5. Anadolu Ajansı (figures: TÜİK ADNKS) · ADNKS AA (11 Mar 2025): Türkiye'de en yaygın soyadları ve isimler belli oldu — ADNKS 2024 Cross-check of ADNKS 2024 figures (not entered as separate rows) Official announcement; cited for facts only
  6. Anadolu Ajansı (figures: TÜİK ADNKS) · ADNKS AA (11 May 2026): Türkiye'de en yaygın isimlerde Mehmet ve Fatma, soyadında Yılmaz zirveyi bırakmadı — ADNKS 2025 Cross-check of ADNKS 2025 figures (not entered as separate rows) Official announcement; cited for facts only
  7. T.C. Resmî Gazete / Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi (mevzuat.gov.tr) Soyadı Kanunu (Kanun No. 2525) Surname Law articles; 1934 rules Official legislation; not protected by copyright (Turkish Law No. 5846, art. 31)
  8. T.C. Resmî Gazete / Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi (mevzuat.gov.tr) Soyadı Nizamnamesi (Bakanlar Kurulu Kararı 2/1759) Surname Regulation article; banned forms and registration procedure Official legislation; not protected by copyright (Turkish Law No. 5846, art. 31)
  9. T.C. Resmî Gazete / Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi (mevzuat.gov.tr) Kemal Öz Adlı Cümhur Reisimize Verilen Soy Adı Hakkında Kanun (Kanun No. 2587) The law that gave the surname Atatürk Official legislation; not protected by copyright (Turkish Law No. 5846, art. 31)
  10. T.C. Resmî Gazete / Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi (mevzuat.gov.tr) Efendi, Bey, Paşa gibi Lakap ve Unvanların Kaldırılmasına Dair Kanun (Kanun No. 2590) Abolition of titles and honorifics Official legislation; not protected by copyright (Turkish Law No. 5846, art. 31)
  11. T.C. Resmî Gazete / Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi (mevzuat.gov.tr) Kanun No. 2622 (accepted 17/12/1934, Resmî Gazete 24/12/1934 no. 2888): the surname ATATÜRK may not be taken by anyone else The ban on anyone else taking the surname Atatürk Official legislation; not protected by copyright (Turkish Law No. 5846, art. 31)
  12. T.C. Resmî Gazete Resmî Ceride/Resmî Gazete no. 339, 4 April 1926 — Türk Kanunu Medenisi (Law No. 743) attached Publication and entry into force of the 1926 Civil Code Official legislation; not protected by copyright (Turkish Law No. 5846, art. 31)
  13. T.C. Resmî Gazete / Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi (mevzuat.gov.tr) Türk Medeni Kanunu (Kanun No. 4721) Changing a name today; surnames on marriage, divorce and adoption Official legislation; not protected by copyright (Turkish Law No. 5846, art. 31)
  14. T.C. Resmî Gazete / Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi (mevzuat.gov.tr) Nüfus Hizmetleri Kanunu (Kanun No. 5490) Correcting the civil register; the 2017 and 2019 one-time change windows Official legislation; not protected by copyright (Turkish Law No. 5846, art. 31)
  15. Sevan Nişanyan Nişanyan Sözlük: Çağdaş Türkçenin Etimolojisi Origin and language of root words Cited as a reference; no text reproduced
  16. Sevan Nişanyan Nişanyan Adlar: Türkiye Kişi Adları Sözlüğü Meaning of surnames that are also given names Cited as a reference; no text reproduced
  17. Türk Dil Kurumu TDK Güncel Türkçe Sözlük Meaning of a surname as an ordinary word Cited as a reference; no text reproduced
  18. Sevan Nişanyan Nişanyan Sözlük — root-language tagging conventions (Turkic, Arabic, Persian, Greek, Armenian, Kurdish, French) Root-language tags Cited as a reference; no text reproduced
  19. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Alan, S. & Polatoğlu, M. G. (2025). Atatürk’ün yakın çevresine verdiği soyadlarının seçilmiş örnekler üzerinden etimolojik analizi. DEÜ Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 27(1), 383–411. doi:10.16953/deusosbil.1615345 Surnames Atatürk gave to his close circle Cited as a reference; no text reproduced
  20. Wikimedia Foundation Wikidata family-name items linked to Turkish (P407=Q256 or trwiki sitelink) Surname list, Wikidata and Wikipedia links, spelling variants CC0 (public domain)
  21. Wikimedia Foundation Wikidata humans (P31=Q5) with P734 family name, linked to Türkiye (P27=Q43 / Q12560 or born in Türkiye) Notable people who carry a surname CC0 (public domain)
  22. Wikimedia Foundation Wikidata humans with Turkish citizenship (P27=Q43) and no P734: last word of the Turkish label Candidate surname list: Wikidata labels of Turkish citizens without a family-name statement CC0 (public domain)
  23. Wikimedia Foundation Turkish Wikipedia biography titles of humans with Turkish citizenship (via Wikidata sitelinks): last word of the title Candidate surname list: last word of Turkish Wikipedia biography titles of Turkish citizens CC BY-SA 4.0 (titles only)
  24. Wikimedia Foundation Turkish Wiktionary categories "Türkçe soyadlar" / "Türkçe soyadları" Candidate surname list; supplementary source for word senses CC BY-SA 4.0
  25. Wikimedia Foundation English Wiktionary "Category:Turkish surnames" (recursive) Candidate surname list; supplementary source for word senses CC BY-SA 4.0
  26. Wikimedia Foundation Turkish Wikipedia "(soyadı)" pages and Kategori:Soyadları Candidate surname list; cross-check of notable people CC BY-SA 4.0
  27. Wikimedia Foundation Vikipedi — Türkiye'nin illeri (region column, cross-check only) Cross-check of province regions CC BY-SA 4.0
  28. Natural Earth Natural Earth Admin-1 boundaries (Türkiye) — derived province land-neighbour list Türkiye map and neighbouring provinces Public domain
  29. own site turkiyenames.com dataset (given names, TÜİK newborn/population ranks) Surnames that are also given names; given-name shares in full-name estimates This site’s own compilation (CC BY 4.0)

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