Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

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Gökyıldız

Gökyıldız /ɡøkjɯɫˈdɯz/ ASCII Gokyildiz

“star of the sky”3

Letters / syllables
9 / 3
Formation
Compound
Vowel harmony
mixed
Initial
G
Contents§1–§10
  1. §1Pronunciation
  2. §2Meaning
  3. §3Root tree
  4. §4Formation & 1934
  5. §5Name family
  6. §6Notable people
  7. §7Abroad
  8. §8Sources
  9. §9Questions
  10. §10Related

How do you pronounce Gökyıldız?

Gökyıldız

IPA /ɡøkjɯɫˈdɯz/

The stress usually falls on syllable 3 (marked). In everyday Turkish, stress in surnames varies by speaker and region.

What does the surname Gökyıldız mean?

Gökyıldız joins gök ‘sky’ and yıldız ‘star’: ‘star of the sky’. Both elements go back to Old Turkic; yıldız comes from yultuz. Nişanyan Adlar files the surname under the name Yıldız, today mostly a female given name.2,3

Grammar gök + yıldız.

That Gökyıldız goes back to gök and yıldız is probable rather than proven: the dictionaries cited agree on it.

What is Gökyıldız made of?

Gökyıldız breaks into 2 parts: gök (sky; blue) + yıldız (star).

Gökyıldız + root gök sky; blue TURKIC gök “sky, blue” root yıldız star TURKIC yıldız “star” Gökyıldız gök root sky; blue gök TURKIC “sky, blue” yıldız root star yıldız TURKIC “star”
Gökyıldız: parts and root words
  • gök Turkic — sky, blue3
  • yıldız Turkic — star2

How was the name Gökyıldız formed?

Gökyıldız belongs to the “compound” class of surnames (gök + yıldız).

Which surnames are related to Gökyıldız?

Gökyıldız Yıldız Gökçe Gök Akyıldız Göksu Gökçen Gökmen Ayyıldız Gökalp Göktaş Gökçek Göksel
Circle area shows the number of bearers; dashed circle: no national count published. Solid line: same root; dashed line: same affix.
#SurnameRelationRankPeople
01 Yıldız same root 5 697,080
02 Gökçe same root – –
03 Gök same root – –
04 Akyıldız same root – –
05 Göksu same root – –
06 Gökçen same root – –
07 Gökmen same root – –
08 Ayyıldız same root – –
09 Gökalp same root – –
10 Göktaş same root – –
11 Gökçek same root – –
12 Göksel same root – –

Who are some well-known people named Gökyıldız?

  1. Beren Gökyıldız film actor 2009–
  2. Şule Gökyıldız Sürücü researcher

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

How is Gökyıldız written and pronounced abroad?

Without Turkish letters the name is usually written Gokyildiz (in German records also Goekyildiz). The dotless ı is a close back vowel, not the English i; ö is a front rounded vowel as in German.

Where do these facts come from?

  1. 1 nisanyanadlar.com nisanyanadlar.com: Gökyıldız accessed 8 November 2026
  2. 2 Sevan Nişanyan Nişanyan Sözlük: yıldız accessed 8 November 2026
  3. 3 Sevan Nişanyan Nişanyan Sözlük: gök 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 T.C. Resmî Gazete / Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi (mevzuat.gov.tr) Soyadı Nizamnamesi (Bakanlar Kurulu Kararı 2/1759) accessed 8 November 2026
  7. 7 Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (TÜİK)ADNKS TÜİK Nüfus İsim Portalı: En çok kullanılan soyisimler (ADNKS) accessed 8 November 2026

Common questions about Gökyıldız

Q1

What does the surname Gökyıldız mean?

Gökyıldız joins gök ‘sky’ and yıldız ‘star’: ‘star of the sky’. Both elements go back to Old Turkic; yıldız comes from yultuz. Nişanyan Adlar files the surname under the name Yıldız, today mostly a female given name.
Q2

What is the origin of the surname Gökyıldız?

The root word of Gökyıldız is gök (Turkic): “sky, blue”.
Q3

How do you pronounce Gökyıldız?

Gök·yıl·dız, 3 syllables; IPA: /ɡøkjɯɫˈdɯz/.