Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

SURNAMEEntry 931

Çağlar

Çağlar /tʃaːˈɫaɾ/ ASCII Caglar

“rushing, gushing (water)”2

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

How do you pronounce Çağlar?

Çağlar

IPA /tʃaːˈɫaɾ/

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

What does the surname Çağlar mean?

As the aorist of çağlamak, Çağlar means “rushing, gushing (like water)”; çağlayan, “waterfall”, comes from the same root. Wiktionary links çağlamak to çağıl, the sound of running water. The same form can also be read as the plural of çağ, “ages, eras”, but the name is usually associated with the image of rushing water.2

Grammar Aorist participle of çağlamak (çağla- + -r); a reading çağ + plural -lar is also possible.

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

What is Çağlar made of?

Çağlar breaks into 2 parts: çağla- (çağlamak: to murmur, to rush (of water)) + -r (aorist suffix).

Çağlar + root çağla- çağlamak: to murmur, torush (of water) TURKIC çağlamak “to babble, to gush (ofrunning water)” suffix -r aorist suffix Çağlar çağla- root çağlamak: to murmur, to rush (ofwater) çağlamak TURKIC “to babble, to gush (of runningwater)” -r suffix aorist suffix
Çağlar: parts and root words
  • çağlamak Turkic — to babble, to gush (of running water)2

How was the name Çağlar formed?

Çağlar belongs to the “from a verb” class of surnames (çağla- + -r).

Which surnames are related to Çağlar?

Çağlar Çağlayan Çağlıyan
Circle area shows the number of bearers; dashed circle: no national count published. Solid line: same root; dashed line: same affix.
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01 Çağlayan same root – –
02 Çağlıyan same root – –

Where in Türkiye is Çağlar most common?

Çağlar is outside the national top 30, but it appears in the top-30 list of 1 province; its best rank is 21st in Çankırı.1

Adana Adıyaman Afyonkarahisar Ağrı Amasya Ankara Antalya Artvin Aydın Balıkesir Bilecik Bingöl Bitlis Bolu Burdur Bursa Çanakkale Çankırı · rank 21 · 769 people 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 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
Çağlar: rank by province, 2025 (TÜİK ADNKS, province top-30 lists)
Provinces with the most bearers
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01Çankırı21769

Who are some well-known people named Çağlar?

  1. Bahar Çağlar basketball player 1988–
  2. Ece Ayhan Çağlar poet 1931–2002
  3. Pınar Çağlar Gençtürk film actor 1982–
  4. Behçet Kemal Çağlar politician 1908–1969
  5. Cavit Çağlar politician 1944–
  6. Ezgi Çağlar association football player 1991–
  7. Alper Çağlar screenwriter 1981–
  8. Bakır Çağlar lawyer 1941–2011

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

Is Çağlar also a first name?

Yes. Çağlar is given as a first name too, carrying the same sense: “rushing, gushing (water)”.

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

How is Çağlar written and pronounced abroad?

In passports and records outside Turkey Çağlar is usually written Caglar. In Turkish ç is pronounced like ch in "church"; ğ is silent and lengthens the vowel before it.

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: çağlamak 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 T.C. Resmî Gazete / Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi (mevzuat.gov.tr) Soyadı Nizamnamesi (Bakanlar Kurulu Kararı 2/1759) 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 8 November 2026

Common questions about Çağlar

Q1

What does the surname Çağlar mean?

As the aorist of çağlamak, Çağlar means “rushing, gushing (like water)”; çağlayan, “waterfall”, comes from the same root. Wiktionary links çağlamak to çağıl, the sound of running water. The same form can also be read as the plural of çağ, “ages, eras”, but the name is usually associated with the image of rushing water.
Q2

What is the origin of the surname Çağlar?

The root word of Çağlar is çağlamak (Turkic): “to babble, to gush (of running water)”.
Q3

How do you pronounce Çağlar?

Çağ·lar, 2 syllables; IPA: /tʃaːˈɫaɾ/.