Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

SURNAMEEntry 881

Batur

Batur /baˈtuɾ/

“hero, valiant”2

Province lists
11
province top-30s
Letters / syllables
5 / 2
Formation
Plain noun
Vowel harmony
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Contents§1–§12
  1. §1Pronunciation
  2. §2Meaning
  3. §3Root tree
  4. §4Formation & 1934
  5. §5Name family
  6. §6Spellings
  7. §7Provinces
  8. §8Notable people
  9. §9As a first name
  10. §10Sources
  11. §11Questions
  12. §12Related

How do you pronounce Batur?

Batur

IPA /baˈtuɾ/

The stress usually falls on syllable 2 (marked). In everyday Turkish, stress in surnames varies by speaker and region.

What does the surname Batur mean?

Batur is Old Turkic for “hero, valiant warrior” and the older form of the word bahadır. Attested since the Orkhon inscriptions, it is a title-like name in the Turkic tradition for martial bravery.2

Grammar From Proto-Turkic *bagatur; bahadır, borrowed via Persian into Ottoman, is the same word.

Batur is also an ordinary word in everyday Turkish.

What is Batur made of?

Batur is a single Turkic root: batur (batur: hero, valiant warrior).

Batur root batur batur: hero, valiantwarrior TURKIC batur “hero; Old Turkic batur,Proto-Turkic *bagatur” Batur batur root batur: hero, valiant warrior batur TURKIC “hero; Old Turkic batur,Proto-Turkic *bagatur”
Batur: parts and root words
  • batur Turkic — hero; Old Turkic batur, Proto-Turkic *bagatur2

How was the name Batur formed?

Batur is the word batur (“batur: hero, valiant warrior”), taken unchanged as a surname.

Shared note · 1934Surnames became compulsory with Surname Law No. 2525 of 21 June 1934.4

Which surnames are related to Batur?

Batur Badur Erbatur Baturalp Baturay Batır Baybatur
Circle area shows the number of bearers; dashed circle: no national count published. Solid line: same root; dashed line: same affix.
#SurnameRelationRankPeople
01 Badur same root – –
02 Erbatur same root – –
03 Baturalp same root – –
04 Baturay same root – –
05 Batır same root – –
06 Baybatur same root – –

How else is Batur spelled?

Bahadırwithout Turkish letters

Where in Türkiye is Batur most common?

Batur is outside the national top 30, but it appears in the top-30 list of 1 province; its best rank is 27th in Siirt.1

Adana Adıyaman Afyonkarahisar Ağrı Amasya Ankara Antalya Artvin Aydın Balıkesir Bilecik Bingöl Bitlis Bolu Burdur Bursa Çanakkale Çankırı Çorum Denizli Diyarbakır Edirne Elazığ Erzincan Erzurum Eskişehir Gaziantep Giresun Gümüşhane Hakkari Hatay Isparta Mersin Istanbul Izmir Kars Kastamonu Kayseri Kırklareli Kırşehir Kocaeli Konya Kütahya Malatya Manisa Kahramanmaraş Mardin Muğla Muş Nevşehir Niğde Ordu Rize Sakarya Samsun Siirt · rank 27 · 1,297 people Sinop Sivas Tekirdağ Tokat Trabzon Tunceli Şanlıurfa Uşak Van Yozgat Zonguldak Aksaray Bayburt Karaman Kırıkkale Batman Şırnak Bartın Ardahan Iğdır Yalova Karabük Kilis Osmaniye Düzce Hover or focus a province · ADNKS 2025
  • In the province top 30 1
  • Not listed
Batur: rank by province, 2025 (TÜİK ADNKS, province top-30 lists)
Provinces with the most bearers
#ProvinceRankPeople
01Siirt271,297

Who are some well-known people named Batur?

  1. Enis Batur writer 1952–
  2. Enes Batur actor 1998–
  3. Çiğdem Batur actor 1982–
  4. Muhsin Batur politician 1920–1999
  5. Abdül Batur politician 1957–
  6. Afife Batur architect 1935–2018
  7. Mehmet Suphi Batur politician 1904–1992
  8. Ali Furkan Batur researcher

People surnamed Batur as recorded in Wikidata, ordered by the number of Wikipedia language editions.

Is Batur also a first name?

Yes. Batur is given as a first name too, carrying the same sense: “hero, valiant”.

Batur as a first name: meaning and statistics — turkiyenames.com →

Where do these facts come from?

  1. 1 Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (TÜİK)ADNKS TÜİK Nüfus İsim Portalı: En çok kullanılan soyisimler (ADNKS) accessed 8 November 2026
  2. 2 Wikimedia Vikisözlük: batur accessed 8 November 2026
  3. 3 Wikimedia Foundation Wikidata: people with this family name accessed 8 November 2026
  4. 4 T.C. Resmî Gazete / Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi (mevzuat.gov.tr) Soyadı Kanunu (Kanun No. 2525) accessed 8 November 2026
  5. 5 Natural Earth Natural Earth: Admin-1 boundaries accessed 8 November 2026
  6. 6 turkiyenames.com Türkiye İsimleri (turkiyenames.com) accessed 9 November 2026

Common questions about Batur

Q1

What does the surname Batur mean?

Batur is Old Turkic for “hero, valiant warrior” and the older form of the word bahadır. Attested since the Orkhon inscriptions, it is a title-like name in the Turkic tradition for martial bravery.
Q2

What is the origin of the surname Batur?

The root word of Batur is batur (Turkic): “hero; Old Turkic batur, Proto-Turkic *bagatur”.
Q3

How do you pronounce Batur?

Ba·tur, 2 syllables; IPA: /baˈtuɾ/.