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Bolat

Bolat /boˈɫat/

“steel”2

Province lists
51
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 Bolat?

Bolat

IPA /boˈɫat/

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

What does the surname Bolat mean?

Bolat is the form of polat, “steel”, pronounced with b; the word comes from Persian pōlād and lives on as bolat in Turkic languages such as Kazakh and Kyrgyz. As a name it means being hard and strong as steel. Some Anatolian villages bear the name.2

That Bolat goes back to pōlād is probable rather than proven: the dictionary entry cited supports it.

What is Bolat made of?

Bolat is a single Persian root: bolat (steel (variant of polat)).

Bolat root bolat steel (variant of polat) PERSIAN pōlād “steel” Bolat bolat root steel (variant of polat) pōlād PERSIAN “steel”
Bolat: parts and root words
  • pōlād Persian — steel2

How was the name Bolat formed?

Bolat is the word bolat (“steel (variant of polat)”), taken unchanged as a surname.

Shared note · 1934Surnames became compulsory with Surname Law No. 2525 of 21 June 1934.5

Which surnames are related to Bolat?

Bolat Canbolat Bolatlı
Circle area shows the number of bearers; dashed circle: no national count published. Solid line: same root; dashed line: same affix.
#SurnameRelationRankPeople
01 Canbolat same root – –
02 Bolatlı same root – –

How else is Bolat spelled?

Polatspelling

Where in Türkiye is Bolat most common?

Bolat is outside the national top 30, but it appears in the top-30 lists of 5 provinces; its best rank is 14th in Çorum.1

Adana Adıyaman Afyonkarahisar Ağrı Amasya · rank 20 · 1,373 people Ankara Antalya Artvin Aydın Balıkesir Bilecik Bingöl Bitlis Bolu Burdur Bursa Çanakkale Çankırı Çorum · rank 14 · 2,332 people 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 · rank 16 · 5,237 people Mardin Muğla Muş Nevşehir Niğde Ordu Rize Sakarya Samsun Siirt Sinop Sivas Tekirdağ Tokat · rank 18 · 2,555 people Trabzon Tunceli Şanlıurfa Uşak Van Yozgat · rank 23 · 1,872 people 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 5
  • Not listed
Bolat: rank by province, 2025 (TÜİK ADNKS, province top-30 lists)
Provinces with the most bearers
#ProvinceRankPeople
01Kahramanmaraş165,237
02Tokat182,555
03Çorum142,332
04Yozgat231,872
05Amasya201,373

Who are some well-known people named Bolat?

  1. Sinan Bolat association football player 1988–
  2. Ömer Bolat politician 1963–
  3. Cihan Bolat association football player 1991–
  4. Salih Bolat poet 1956–2022
  5. Yasin Bolat amateur wrestler 1986–
  6. Barış Bolat association football player
  7. Cennet Bolat researcher
  8. Cuma Bolat researcher 1982–

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

Is Bolat also a first name?

Yes. Bolat is given as a first name too, carrying the same sense: “steel”.

Bolat 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 Wiktionary: pōlād accessed 8 November 2026
  3. 3 Wikimedia Wiktionary: polat accessed 8 November 2026
  4. 4 Wikimedia Foundation Wikidata: people with this family name accessed 8 November 2026
  5. 5 T.C. Resmî Gazete / Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi (mevzuat.gov.tr) Soyadı Kanunu (Kanun No. 2525) accessed 8 November 2026
  6. 6 Natural Earth Natural Earth: Admin-1 boundaries accessed 8 November 2026
  7. 7 turkiyenames.com Türkiye İsimleri (turkiyenames.com) accessed 9 November 2026

Common questions about Bolat

Q1

What does the surname Bolat mean?

Bolat is the form of polat, “steel”, pronounced with b; the word comes from Persian pōlād and lives on as bolat in Turkic languages such as Kazakh and Kyrgyz. As a name it means being hard and strong as steel. Some Anatolian villages bear the name.
Q2

What is the origin of the surname Bolat?

The root word of Bolat is pōlād (Persian): “steel”.
Q3

How do you pronounce Bolat?

Bo·lat, 2 syllables; IPA: /boˈɫat/.