Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

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Kardaş

Kardaş /kaɾˈdaʃ/ ASCII Kardas

“brother, sibling”2

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

How do you pronounce Kardaş?

Kardaş

IPA /kaɾˈdaʃ/

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

What does the surname Kardaş mean?

Kardaş is the older and dialect form of kardeş, a brother or sister born of the same parents. The word is built from karın “belly, womb” and the suffix -daş, so it means “one of the same womb”.2

Grammar karın + the suffix of fellowship -daş (with vowel loss).

Kardaş is also an ordinary word in everyday Turkish.

What is Kardaş made of?

Kardaş is a single root: kardaş (kardaş: brother, sibling).

Kardaş root kardaş kardaş: brother, sibling TURKIC kardaş “older and dialect formof kardeş ‘sibling’” Kardaş kardaş root kardaş: brother, sibling kardaş TURKIC “older and dialect form of kardeş‘sibling’”
Kardaş: parts and root words
  • kardaş Turkic — older and dialect form of kardeş “sibling”2

How was the name Kardaş formed?

Kardaş belongs to the “plain noun” class of surnames.

How else is Kardaş spelled?

Kardeşspelling

Where in Türkiye is Kardaş most common?

Kardaş is outside the national top 30, but it appears in the top-30 list of 1 province; its best rank is 10th in Bitlis.1

Adana Adıyaman Afyonkarahisar Ağrı Amasya Ankara Antalya Artvin Aydın Balıkesir Bilecik Bingöl Bitlis · rank 10 · 2,020 people 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 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
Kardaş: rank by province, 2025 (TÜİK ADNKS, province top-30 lists)
Provinces with the most bearers
#ProvinceRankPeople
01Bitlis102,020

How is Kardaş written and pronounced abroad?

Without Turkish letters the name is written Kardas in English and German records.

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: kardaş accessed 8 November 2026
  3. 3 T.C. Resmî Gazete / Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi (mevzuat.gov.tr) Soyadı Kanunu (Kanun No. 2525) accessed 8 November 2026
  4. 4 T.C. Resmî Gazete / Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi (mevzuat.gov.tr) Soyadı Nizamnamesi (Bakanlar Kurulu Kararı 2/1759) accessed 8 November 2026
  5. 5 Natural Earth Natural Earth: Admin-1 boundaries accessed 8 November 2026

Common questions about Kardaş

Q1

What does the surname Kardaş mean?

Kardaş is the older and dialect form of kardeş, a brother or sister born of the same parents. The word is built from karın “belly, womb” and the suffix -daş, so it means “one of the same womb”.
Q2

What is the origin of the surname Kardaş?

The root word of Kardaş is kardaş (Turkic): ‘older and dialect form of kardeş “sibling”’.
Q3

How do you pronounce Kardaş?

Kar·daş, 2 syllables; IPA: /kaɾˈdaʃ/.